We went down to Poipu because the next few days are going to be cloudier. Later in the week, when we’re on the north shore it should be sunny. Make sense? We can go to the botanical gardens down south on the rainy/cloudy days (better photography). Poipu was crowded and sunny, but with a 15mph trade wind,so it was pleasant.

We finally re-found Costco and stocked up on a few food items and a huge bunch of macadamia cans. 

Turns out we still had our phone number associated with a Foodland card from our 2007 visit to kauai. Got a few things there, too, at the prices that are reserved for regulars. Walmart is competitive with local prices which are HIGH. Costco has the best deals but you can’t get small quantities.

Navigation with the bluetooth hands-free gadget worked for finding Spouting horn from Poipu. The trick is to have a data signal when you ask it to calculate the route. It can give you turn-by-turn instructions even if you lose the data signal mid-route as long as you have the may stored in the phone using the local storage option on later versions of Google Map available on Android (4.1+)  Other times I could not get a signal to begin the navigation. Would have needed to go to McDonalds or Starbucks to calculate the path.

The audio book (Killing Lincoln) was an absolute sucess, by the way. The 6-hour flight would have bee less fun for me.

the ocean is about 100 feet of the lanai. The sound is loud and soothing. It gets down to 70 at night. Very soothing.