By the time we arrived in Ireland recently, we’d been on the go for about 48 hours straight, or so it seemed. Our flight left Lihue around 10 in the evening; after 5 hours we arrived in Los Angeles for a 90 minute layover. We boarded a second five hour flight for Newark, where we …
The Kilauea Lighthouse on Kauai is a don’t miss for visitors. We love taking our guests to the Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge overlook, and then into the Lighthouse grounds for more looking around. Kilauea is on the northeast side of Kauai; if you’re coming from Poipu or another area on the south side, it’s …
How do people afford to live in Hawaii? Before you throw your favorite flip flops and aloha shirt in your sayonara suitcase, heed our best advice for moving to Hawaii. It’s deep midwinter on the Mainland as I write this and with it, a virtual polar vortex of emails and blog visitors who are wondering: …
Even if you’ve visited Kauai before, there are still quirky things to discover that the guidebooks won’t tell you. Guidebooks focus on things like sightseeing, excursions, and where to eat out. But there’s a lot more to know about Kauai. We put together this list after living here for almost a year. A younger friend …
Hanalei, on the north shore of Kauai, is home to several excellent examples of early 20th century beach houses, lining Weke Road along Hanalei Bay. Built by Kauai’s founding missionary and agricultural families as summer residences, all but one of these on our list appear on the National and Hawaii State Historic Registers. Check out …
We went down to the Hanalei Pier to see Hokule‘a and her sibling voyaging canoe, Hikianalia, who had arrived earlier in the week. The big sisters dwarfed most of the other boats in Hanalei Bay. Hosting tours of schoolchildren and the public, the Polynesian Voyaging Society was finishing a series of stops throughout the main islands …
It was fun to put together a quick list of 15 movies filmed in and around our lovely town of Hanalei on the North Shore of Kauai, using the list.ly tool. For a full list of over one hundred movies and television shows filmed on the island of Kauai (including Jurassic Park and Fantasy Island), click …