It's Saturday and we'd seen several advertisements for Farmer's Markets so that was the plan for the day. The first one was in Princeville where our condo is. I'm still not entirely sure what Princeville actually is. I think it's kind of like "The Villages" in Florida where it's just a number of individual condo associations. There is a small shopping area a few minutes from us but other than that there doesn't appear to be any organized town center. The first market was our favorite and we got lucky with parking. Kerry picked up some gifts for people back home and Carter found Mango Granny as he calls her and got a good deal on three Mangos.
The second market was picturesque as we were walking up to it as it was near the base of some mountains but the market itself wasn't quite as nice. The parking log area was a bit muddy and it didn't have as many stalls. Callie did manage to get one of her bucket list items for the trip, a drink in a coconut. She brought the coconut back to the condo and frightened us when she started trying to use a knife to open it up to get some fresh coconut. She solved her own problem though by taking it out to the deck and smashing it on the concrete. Not sure what she's going to do with it but it was safer than the knife.
Once we were done with the markets our destination was the local ABC store. We've been to Maui twice and the big island twice and each time we find an ABC store to get souvenirs. This one was very clean but almost too nice. I think they've standardized the items they have because everything was generic Hawaii and nothing was Kauai specific. We picked up some chocolate macadamia related items and I started a new collection of mint tins since spoons don't seem to be a collectable anymore. Kerry didn't find a Kauai shot glass so we'll have to continue to search for that.
It was lunch time and we intended to check out a local food truck lot we had seen from the road but Kauai has some funny hours for stores. The place we went kayaking was closed on Saturday's and it seems most of the food trucks were as well. I can't find anything online that explains this but I think it's mainly just a lack of employees. The island only has 75,000 permanent residents and there are lots of signs saying they are short staffed so Saturday/Sunday are days off. Carter and I found food at Chicken in a Barrel and Kerry and Callie did manage to find a Thai food truck that was still open.
Another site on the Kauai list was the Kilauea Light House. We found it okay but we weren't able to get very close. It's part of some sort of nature reserve and you can go in but you need reservations in advance. There was a sign indicating cell service is bad in the area so it would have taken some time to go back out and get our reservations in place. We might go back later because it looked like a nice little walk out to the light house and I'd like to see what the nature reserve is all about.
We went back to our condo for dinner and then headed out again to the Hanalei pier to try to watch the sunset. Based on where it appeared the sun was setting it would have been a great vantage point. It would have set right between the two mountains that line the bay. Unfortunately it was cloudy out with more random bouts of rain. We got to see a bit of light coming through the clouds but it wasn't a full Hawaii sunset. The weather forecast isn't looking good for the remaining days so I don't think we'll see one unless we get a break in the clouds.
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