Travel Review: May 9, 2013, Part II: Dinner Cruise to the NaPali Coast

Ok, this will probably be the biggest set of pictures for a single day of this review series.  The dinner cruise around the southwest end of Kauai and up the NaPali coast was the most picturesque of our adventures.  So, with no more adieu, here are the pictures:

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Travel Review: May 9, 2013, Part I: Sunrise & Sunset

Ok, so with the extensive number of pictures in the upcoming post from our Dinner Cruise up the NaPali Coast, I was going to exclude the sunrise and sunset photos from this day, but they were just too nice to forget about 🙂

Sunrise at Kauai Beach Resort:

 

Sunset from our NaPali Dinner Cruise:

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Travel Review: May 8, 2013: First Hawaii Sunrise, Feet in the Pacific, Opaeka’a Falls & Spouting Horn Blowhole

Our First Sunrise on the Hawaiian Islands, specifically from the Kauai Beach Resort:

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Our first “Feet in the Pacific” for this trip:

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Opaeka’a Falls, just west and upland from the community of Wailua:

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The Spouting Horn Blowhole near Poipu on the southern shore of Kauai:

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Travel Review: May 7, 2013: Kauai Beach Resort Torch Lighting Ceremony

May 7th was our flight day to Kauai and arrival at Kauai Beach Resort.  Tuesday evening, our arrival day, was their weekly torch lighting ceremony with free Mai Tai’s and a Hula Dance presentation:

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Travel Review: May 6, 2013, Part II: Sausalito & San Francisco

After exploring the Marin Headlands, we drove down to Sausalito on the North Bay to walk around, see the sights and grab a snack before returning to the hotel.

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Once back at the hotel, we got changed for dinner with our friend Steve and drove to Downtown San Francisco and got a guided tour of the sights from The Embarcadero, to Chinatown, to Nob Hill, to Union Square, where we ate dinner at The Cheesecake Factory on the 8th Floor Balcony of Macy’s.