Did you push F11 to see these picture full screen (and, of course, click on "slideshow"? Here's a photo from the beginning of our sail -- but quite typical of the scenery where cliffs abut the sea.
We started in Princeville, a planned resort community on Kauai's North Shore. This place gets its name from Prince Albert--not Victoria's but the son of one of the Kamehameha kings who loved all things British. It holds what some consider the best golf course in Hawaii.
In wintertime, 40' waves keep even the boaters away from the coast line. Rip tides make swimming challenging all of the time and a scoreboard shows how many have drowned here.
Hawaiians probably settled here around 1200 AD -- about a millennium later than on the Big Island. They would live in the mile-wide valleys seen hiding in the shadows above.
Here's a depression where the Pacific is working its destruction of Kauai. The ribs on the mountain are created by waterfalls enforced by the heavy rains.
The valleys climb to the top of the mountains after about two miles. Waterfall-carved amphitheaters face each side of the valleys.
The valleys today contain many archeological sites, most obscured by vegetation after these areas were churned by Hurricane Iniki in 1992. Category 4 Iniki was the most powerful hurricane to strike the Islands on record and it caused ecological changes to Kauai.
Here's more movie trivia: When Hurricane Iniki devastated Kauai, filmmaker Steven Spielberg was trying to finish shooting "Jurassic Park." The movie is, of course, an anachronism since the dinosaurs were long gone by the time the magma hole created Kauai 6 million years ago.
Here's a cave in formation. These rock cliffs are typical as the Pacific undermines the shore until the top heavy rock crashes into the sea. This will happen until Kauai is only an atoll.
Here's a waterfall helping out the destruction of the sea. After a rain, many more waterfalls appear.
We're looking a little more rested than when we did the hike at the same location.
The rocks show the effects of successive waves of magma flowing out of the shield volcanoes.
In some cases, a pink rock layer is quite evident...
...as is the case here.
What boat trip along Na Pali would be complete without a rainbow and a sunset?
We returned to Princeville (our condo is at left) just before sunset...
Allowing us to take these sunset pictures from Hanalei Bay
