Monday - in Princeville, Kauai

This morning we slept in and made our own breakfast in the condo. The Kona chocolate macadamia nut coffee was superb. We then lounged around until it was time to venture around the island. Our plan was to drive to Lihue (about 20 miles) and do some shopping and then drive to the south part of the island to see some interesting things in the area we don't normally get to.

We got on the road (the only road around the island) and after about 2 miles, traffic slowed to a dead stop. We were in traffic about 20-25 minutes and had progressed about 1/4 mile (probably only from cars turning around) when we decided to give up and turn around. We drove back toward Hanalei and kept driving... around the part of the island that dead-ends. There were lots of one-lane bridges in this area (each direction takes turns) and we went about 6 miles when the road just ended. We stopped and took a couple of pictures. The scenery is exquisite... including the mermaid we found.
The traffic , it turned out, was the result of the only road being blocked by a mudslide, caused by all the rain we have had recently. We had lunch at Bubba's Burgers in Hanalei Bay (and they were awesome). We did some shopping (bought some sunglasses) and then went swimming at the pool in the afternoon.
Also, there were several earthquakes over the last few days... a 2.6 on the Richter scale yesterday on Hawaii, a 4.0 on the big island today and a 2.9 on Maui today. This may be considered somewhat normal, but it's a little freaky to me.
Our plans tonight are to get a pizza at the local pizza place and keep a low profile so we can be rested for tomorrow's plans. Tomorrow we have a flight to Oahu and rental car planned, to stay the entire day visiting the museums (3) at Pearl Harbor and do whatever else we can find to do. We will arrive in Oahu at 8:30 am and have a 8 pm return flight, so it will be a long day being a tourist.
Aloha!