home from Kaua'i

It took a bit, but the cold has sunk back into my bones. Or maybe it's just that I'm really tired. We had an overnight flight back, and were only able to get a few naps in. Effectively been up since 9 AM yesterday.

I guess the weather was really bad while we were gone. Got nearly a foot of snow the day after we left. Then more snow just about every day since. There was a little snow in the air when we touched down, but it's been mostly sunny since. Hopefully, the snow will melt soon, but I have to clear the driveway before then.

I'm tired and hurtin'. More later, with hundreds of pictures.

Hanalei Bay sunset

We took about 700 pictures for the week. I hope to fix up a good number of them, and I'd also like to post about the trip in detail, but I only have today and tomorrow before I have to go back to work, and I'm tired. So here's one for now.

This is Hanalei Bay, on the north side of the island. We stayed in a cottage a couple of miles past the bay. We saw this on our way to dinner. The restaurant was a little bit down the road, and when we got there, we discovered we had the same view of the sunset, though it had faded a bit by the time we were seated. The restaurant was an expensive place in a resort. It was open-air, and had a beautiful view of the bay.

disappointment

I'm a bit disappointed about the some things we didn't get to do. We didn't take a boat tour. We didn't see any whales or sea turtles. We didn't see the National Tropical Botanical Gardens. I didn't see the Alakai Swamp. Didn't see Pearl Harbor. Probably a few other things I'm forgetting just now.

I'm getting nervous about my pictures from my new camera. First of all, they all turned out underexposed. I had a polarizer on it, but the camera checks exposure through the lens, so it should compensate. It had a lot of trouble focusing in dim light, which I blame on the polarizer. I'm pretty sure I only used it on my telephoto lens, and but all my shots seem to be bad. I don't recall having any trouble with the handful of pics I took before the trip.

The second problem is that I can't yet view the pics I took in RAW. My friend gave me a link to the Adobe site for free downloads, but I first have to upgrade Photoshop. So I've got a couple hundred pics I won't even be able to see for a couple of days.

It's frustrating because these pictures are my memories. I remember the last day pretty well (so far), but anything earlier in the week, I need the pics. The underexposed pics are not going to be great pictures. They'll be fine for showing people what we saw, but I intended to come away with a few spectacular shots.