Kauai #2: Sleeping Giant, Secret Beach, and Sunset from Ke'e Beach

Our second full day on Kauai and we were still getting a handle on what we wanted to do and the "lay of the land." Right hear where we were staying was a mountain called "The Sleeping Giant."  We climbed it.  Here's we're looking at the head and it's head/chin facing upwards towards the sky.  I didn't ever get a good picture of the entire "body" of the giant.

 

The view towards the southeast and Kapa'a town/valley in the foreground.

Towards the northeast.

Towards the north coast

And looking east towards Mount Waieale'ale which is hidden in the clouds.

After lunch, we decided to drive to the North Coast and the first stop was Kilauea lighthouse.

Our guidebook noted that just west of the lighthouse was a place called "Secret Beach."  It was a slippery, muddy hike down but here it is.

The waves, it's a truth during the winter, were much too big in which to swim.

Once on the North Shore, we drove as far west as possible to Ke'e beach and the start of the famed Na Pali coast.  We spent a few hours here to watch the sunset.

Onions HATES the sun, so here's the sun shelter.

I, however, have no problems with the sun and sand.

My attempt at a warrior pose.  Oohhhh, not so pretty.

This would be our first of three trips up to this end of the island, however this first trip was the most dramatic in watching the sunset with Asia on the other side.