Princeville condo

The second week on Kauai I stayed in a condo at Princeville, high on a bluff overlooking the ocean, just east of Hanalei on the north shore. It's a developed community, not quite as natural and rustic as Haena, but still very nice and beautiful. This is the view from the lanai of my condo...it seems you can see halfway to Alaska!

This is the view from the other side of the condo. This is actually a rare scene...no clouds over the interior mountains! You're looking toward Mount Waialeale, which gets 450 inches of rain a year...the world's wettest spot. It's almost always cloudy over these mountains, but on this particular day the trade winds stopped, allowing skies to clear.

Here's one of the residents of the neighborhood...a Laysan albatross! These birds just hang out on people's lawns...the females sit on their nests in front yards and it's cool. The albatrosses soar along the cliffsides. They're large birds, with about a six foot wingspan...graceful in the air, they tend to lumber on land.