Day 3 on Kauai

And again the evening of Day 2 it rained and rained.  This was a pretty wet day, it really outright rained quite a bit of the time.  I had really wanted to visit Lydgate Beach Park, so we brought our beach stuff and headed out.  We would get wet anyways, so might as well head to the beach.  This beach park has a natural breakwater and a shallow lagoon that is great for kids to swim and snorkel.  But, due to the storms, the surf was high and lots of driftwood and debris had been pushed into the lagoon.  You had to wade out past the sticks and stuff to get out to more open water.  The beach was covered with driftwood and sticks too.  You can see all the debris on the beach in the pic below.

I went out and checked out the snorkeling and there were lots of fish out in the lagoon.  So I brought Adam out and a half a bagel and we had tons of fish around us.  Amazingly, Adam didn't freak out.  Normally he is afraid of fish by him (again, I'm not sure who's kid this is).  But he had a good time with the fish.  All you had to do was bend over and put your face in the water and they were everywhere.

We took a drive up to 'Opaeka'a Falls and it stopped raining just long enough for me to get out and snap some pictures.  

I had planned on going to visit Kamokila Hawaiian Village but their gate was closed.  It is supposed to be a recreation Hawaiian village.  Not sure if they are just closed on Mondays or if they were closed because of all the rain.  

But here's a shot looking out over the Hawaiian Village down in the valley.  (On the bottom right where the palm trees are growing)

Then we tried to drive up to the Keahua Arboretum, but we got most of the way up there and then there was a swift stream crossing the road and I didn't want to try to cross it.  I figured if we went in, we might not be able to get back out the way it had been raining.  

I had also wanted to do the Fern Grotto boat tour and hike, but with all the rain I decided to just call it a day.  So this day was a bit of a bummer.  :(