Before our tour at the gardens but after we dropped Tim off, Maya and I headed to Anini Beach. It was lovely, calm water, and PERFECT sand castle sand. Then we headed to our garden tour. The botanical garden's "regular" tour is only set up for people over the age of 13. But the children's tour was fantastic. They gave us an abbreviated tour of the gardens, with information for adults and children alike. The tour guide had prepared bags for all of the kiddos (decorated with their names) for them to collect "treasure" from the ground as we wandered the garden. Plus there were copious beautiful bronze sculptures for the adults to look at and the kids to climb all over. After an hour and a half of the educational stuff, the tour ended in a water park/massive playgound that the 5 or so kids had entirely to themselves. Maya thoroughly enjoyed herself (see all of her treasure pictured below).
Tim's hike was roughly eight miles along and beneath powerlines connecting the north of Kauai with the south. The trail started as a narrow dirt road/path, but quickly devolved to an unmaintained muddy grass trail. The ankle height ferns and grass at times made Tim wish he had worn socks; the rest of the time his shoes were ankle deep in mud. There were plenty of flowers, mountains and distant waterfalls to photograph. Even with the mud, it was a pleasant walk. (The EveryTrail version is here.)
After we all met up again, we headed to Kilauea, where we stopped at a (clearly local) lunch stop and had some fish burritos before heading out to the Kilauea lighthouse. The lighthouse was closed for renovations, but we got some great views of Spinner Dolphins and tons of tropical birds. Then we headed to the Sealodge Beach (literally down a somewhat treacherous path behind our condo). The mosquitoes (and a lack of bug spray) drove us back to the condo before we had dinner at a delicious tapas restaurant in Hanalei.
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