4th to 6th November Kauai

Drop Daphne of at her luxury resort for a weekend of socializing with like minded pooches and of for the half hour flight. Paradise found! After changing enormous upgraded limousine for a more manageable car drive the 15 miles to our apartment at Pohoi. Ground floor right on the edge of te sea! Walk alng the greensward in front of the block to a snorkelling bay tucked behind a reef. Amazing snorkelling with very large specimens. The biggest parrotfish,butterfly and other types we have ever seen. Even Matthew and Hannah find them large. Turtle pops his head up just in front of our apartment and we learn that we have just missed a monk seal which was on the beach. Steaks for supper after a big shop in surprisingly well stocked supermarket. Snorkel again after breakfast on Dad's birthday, he would have been 99! Hannah showed us an eel hiding in the coral. Matthew finishes work early and we all go to botanical garden nearby, they head off but we carry on with a guided tour into a valley with native,canoe and introduced plants. Cook was here, discovering the island on his way north to find a northwest passage. Back for another snorkel then seared tuna with papaya salsa - really good.