After Waimea Canyon all I could do was sing “All over La Jolla and Waimea Bay, everybody’s gone surfin’, surfin’ U.S.A.” 

Waimea Canyon is full of dusty red dirt. We were hot and needed to find a place to take a dip. I had read about Salt Pond Beach earlier that day, as we are driving we came across the sign and quickly turned in. Very cool place. There is a small rock wall roughly 80 feet off shore that the waves crash over. It is mesmerizing to stand in the water and watch. We stayed there for a little while, collected a few shells, snapped a couple pics, caught some rays and then on we went.

Post-beach jeep pic:
After soaking up the sun at Salt Pond we were very thirsty and it just so happened that there was 1 of Kau’ai’s 2 breweries on our way back. 

We stopped in at Kau’ai Island Brewing in Port Allen. It was tucked back in an older warehouse type building but the space inside was fun. There was a long bar and lots of tables full of what looked like mostly locals. We sat at the bar. Everytime Sarah and I travel we find ourselves sitting at the bar to eat/drink when possible, it forces you to talk to others and the bartenders. We have found out some great tips from chatting w/ bartenders and others that we meet this way. 

We ordered 2 flights of their beers – 8 tasters all together. They were all very good. The bar tender was friendly and recommended we go with a small portion of the nachos if we just wanted something small. We took his advice and they were delicious.

My personal favorite was the Wai’ale’ale.

We haven’t really been drinking so we were feeling a little loopy…ugh lightweights.

Then we got tired and Kau’ai Cofee was on our way home so we decided to stop for a second visit. The coffee is unbelievable. Honestly, we may even stop a 3rd time.

We bopped around the Southern Coast and rolled into Piopu around 5:30ish. We weren’t sure what we felt like doing so we ended up walking out onto Shipwrecks Beach. We set our towels down as the sunset and watched a few people off in the distance jumping off a cliff. This man’s girlfriend gave him a kiss, screamed how scared she was and then jumped. He stood there for over an hour and his buddy had to go up and walk him back down. Haha it made for great entertainment. 

After packing up at Shipwrecks we headed home through Lihue. This is where Kau’ai’s second brewery is located, so we stopped in. Kau’ai Beer Company is located on Rice St. Once again we bellied up to the bar.

Our bartender was an adorable guy named Jesse, originally from Arizona. He recommended the Reuben and set us up with a flight of all their beers.

Everything was so good. The beers were legit, the oatmeal pale ale might have been one of my favorites ever. I was disappointed because the pork sandwich w Spam was not on the dinner menu:( sorry Tommy. We may go back though. We met a rocket scientist from Alabama named Steve who comes to this island often for work. He gave us a ton of tips and highly recommended the Napoli Coast trial once again. We left feeling very satisfied and promising ourselves we would hike the Napoli coast before we go home.

Once again got to bed before 10pm:)