Robot Dreams

Right before I left on vacation for Kauai I replaced my phone service. There came a point that I could not receive phone calls while sitting at home, and I've had only a cell phone for years now. To put it mildly Cingular's claims about network coverage doesn't cover the customers that got swallowed up by their ATT wireless purchase. So I switched to T-mobile, for a lower price, more minutes, new international phone, and now I get a full signal at home

Why I came to use my phone for some pictures in this trip is simple... I didn't have time, I'm the kind of person who packs in the last 5 minutes if possible, to test if my SLR camera was working. So I try and use it for the first time in the helicopter tour we took, and it doesn't work. It just decides to rewind every roll of film I put in it. Anyway here are some of the resulting phone pictures from the trip...

• We tried doing a small hike to a pair of waterfalls, we only managed to see one of them after getting lost, and along the way we had some interesting spectators.

• One of the first things we did was to scoped out some of the local beaches and parks. The first one we visited was Ke'e Beach at the end of the road entering the Ha'ena State Park. None of us that went are really beach persons, John and I where more interested in the snorkeling, of which I'll post pictures eventually.

• The town we stayed in, Princeville, was once part of a plantation as much of Kaua'i was. At this point it is mostly resorts and vacation homes. But across the Kuhio highway, an overrated term since it's only the speed limit not the size that seems to change, is a lookout point with a view of the Taro Farms and of the start of the mountain range behind it.

• And stragely, on the last day, we took a stroll down to the beach at the end of the street in Princeville. The Puu Poa Beach is at the bottom of the cliff on which stands the Princeville Hotel. The image in this case is an arrangement of three phone pictures taken from the same spot.