Kauai Day 3

Today we were going to head up to the North Shore but didn't quite make it that far. We had a late start, getting on the road by 1pm. As we headed up the road we stopped for shave ice. It was so expensive and not that great. Maui definitely is winning in the competition. We took our shave ices up the road to a pull off. It's not a beach you swim at but it's beautiful. This is the lookout at Kealia Beach.And by the way there are chickens and roosters everywhere!

We kept driving up to the North Shore when I saw a sign for the Kilauea Lighthouse. I decided to check it out (Steve was asleep). As we turned down the road to the get to the lighthouse Steve woke up. We got to the end of a driveway where there is a lookout. It was full of birds and crashing waves. These pics are from the lookout. We drove further down the road to a parking lot. We had to walk the long path (as seen above) to get to the lighthouse. There are tons of birds on this island. It was really beautiful. The picture below, all the white spots on the side of the mountain are birds.

We saw this beach from the Lighthouse lookout and overheard an employee saying it was called Secret Beach. We could only see a few people on the beach for how large it is. So we decided to find it. It took us about 10 minute walk from the car to the beach and then another 10 minutes down to the South end of the beach. The waves were getting bigger. We were there for almost an hour then it started to rain on us. It rained pretty good. We took that as our opportunity to leave.