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Here is a collection of miscellaneous pictures we took on the island.

Some roadside scenery.

This is the sort of thing you see when you're driving around the island. It's just there. Nothing special, apparently.

There were several one-lane bridges on the north coast near Hanalei. This is the first and biggest. They've effectively stopped development up there.

Here is a pair of them, just before the turnoff to our cottage. There is a certain etiquette one must follow, when crossing. first car there goes first, but cars go together in groups.

Here's the helicopter we rode in. Luke was our pilot. That's the assistant, who took us to the chopper and made sure we were buckled in properly. I wonder if this is the one that crashed. I think they only had two.

Sugar cane used to be the main crop on Kaua'i, but little of it is grown anymore. This is coffee.

There were chickens everywhere on the island. This one was in Koke'e State Park, which was just about the highest on the island that we went. We saw some at Ke'e - a hen with some chicks, scurrying across the beach. The story is that they were set free by the hurricane, whereupon they have bred freely. Apparently they don't taste very good, or there wouldn't be as many around.

There were birdwatchers interested in them too. I couldn't believe how many people would feed them.

Sorry, I couldn't resist this one.

The pier at Waimea. An old woman with a couple of fishing poles. Out at the end of the pier were a couple of younger guys fishing. They had caught three of these baby hammerhead sharks.

They were about thirty inches long. I'm guessing the fishermen were removing the predators from their fishing waters. I hadn't heard that there were any of this kind around. The snorkeling guides list mainly black-tipped reef sharks.

Spouting Horn. A big tourist attraction near Poipu on the south side of the island. It had a big parking lot for tour buses, and some tents selling souvenirs. There is a tunnel through the rock. When a wave comes in, the air pressure sprays water out of the hole, accompanied by a low groaing horn-like sound. Then the wave itself bursts from the hole. This fountain might be as high as twenty feet high.

Mai Tais at the airport on the way out of Honolulu.

A rainbow from Hanapepe Valley. More roadside scenery. It's hard not to see rainbows on the island. This one arched all the way over, through blue sky, to the ocean on the other end.