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great photos!!! one of my closest friends has a brother that lives on Kauai - and she and her daughter have visited over there the last 2 summers - and her daughter sent me many photos of the chickens every day!!!
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Love the sights so far! Interesting about the chickens, but now I'm also wondering about rats? (I really, really freak out over rats. One ran in front of my car in Georgetown a month or so ago and I SCREAMED!!) Is there a rat problem in Hawaii?
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Love the sights so far! Interesting about the chickens, but now I'm also wondering about rats? (I really, really freak out over rats. One ran in front of my car in Georgetown a month or so ago and I SCREAMED!!) Is there a rat problem in Hawaii?
Not that I know of. There are many ways these days of "dealing with" infestations now, so I doubt they're an issue any more. In the past when they were a problem they were still pretty much only a problem on the sugar cane plantations. I don't remember ever hearing about them venturing into town!
Ok, caught up again, and now I'm desperately fighting the urge to plan a trip to Hawaii! I know I'll get there eventually, but I'm wanting to leave
Oh you would love it! Because of various things going on at the moment, it looks as if our return trip back there is more likely to be Christmas 2016, rather than Christmas 2017 now...
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great photos!!! one of my closest friends has a brother that lives on Kauai - and she and her daughter have visited over there the last 2 summers - and her daughter sent me many photos of the chickens every day!!!
Oh wow - how cool is that, spending the last couple of summers there. I'm jealous!
Love the sights so far! Interesting about the chickens, but now I'm also wondering about rats? (I really, really freak out over rats. One ran in front of my car in Georgetown a month or so ago and I SCREAMED!!) Is there a rat problem in Hawaii?
I can honestly say that I never saw a rat in Hawai'i, so if there is a rat problem, we were happily oblivious to it. Don't let that put you off visiting Hawai'i.
We climbed further up and soon saw the sign for the Waimea Canyon overlook, which is what I wanted to see. We headed over to it and the heat was pretty brutal. Thank goodness I’d been able to get some sun tan lotion into a small bottle (pinched from Aulani ) as we were going to need it.
It was quite a steep climb up to the overlook, but it was well worth it for the view that awaited us. It was similar to the Grand Canyon, but I heard quite a few people say that it was better because there was greenery here and I’d agree with that. It was amazing to see such a variety of colours laid out beneath us. We stood there for some time admiring the view, then we moved a bit further on and got a slightly different perspective and admired it a bit more and got some more photos.
From here, my zoom could even pick out the sea! A helicopter flying through…
Mark got talking to some Americans and he only told me this later, but they thought he was Australian, then they guessed New Zealand and finally South African. This would not be the last time this happened today either… I think he sounds British to me, but maybe I’m wrong?
We finished admiring the view and headed back to the car park to use the restrooms. We also got some coconut for Mark and some papaya for me and got two cold drinks as well. As we said, the woman who was running this stall must be doing a roaring trade, especially as there were a number of coaches there.
Something rather worrying happened when one coach was reversing out. The reversing beepers were going, but he also had to continually sound his horn as well, as two cars just carried on past him while he was manoeuvring. Some people are unbelievable!
We set off again and this time the GPS took us a different route back down and wow, this was a much more stunning road. We stopped a couple of times to get photos…
… and I also got some photos as we were driving along…
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Because of various things going on at the moment, it looks as if our return trip back there is more likely to be Christmas 2016, rather than Christmas 2017 now... 
Thank goodness I’d been able to get some sun tan lotion into a small bottle (pinched from Aulani 
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