On our last day in Kauai, we went to check out the Kauai Plantation Railway.

You get to ride on this old fashioned train around their property checking out fruit trees, mountain scenery, and some animals.

Halfway through the ride they stop and let everyone off to feed bread to their pigs!

If you have some time to kill near the airport, this is a fun little ride!

After all of my times visiting Kauai, I still hadn’t been on Smith’s Fern Grotto River Tour. So with the morning free, we paid the kamaaina price and got on board!

It was a nice sunny day and we had an informative guide driving us up the Wailua River.

Apparently there were many more ferns prior to Hurricane Iniki. I still think it’s pretty though while it is recovering…

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Smith’s Fern Grotto Tours, Wailua River

Looking for a quick breakfast before heading to the fern grotto, we decided on Waipouli Restaurant in the Waipouli Town Center.

I had my standard Portuguese sausage, eggs, and rice…

And he had a veggie omelet…

We also shared a macadamia nut pancake because we were both pretty hungry!

Here’s a look at some of their other menu items…

After our quick visit to Waimea Pier, we headed to a beach near Poipu to do a little fishing. If you remember our last fishing adventure with the homemade fishing rod, I actually still had that in the car and brought it out to try again. We also now had our normal fishing rod and tackle as well.

On the way to the fishing grounds we passed by a napping Hawaiian Monk Seal.

Then made it to a nice little rocky area.

We didn’t have much time here, just enough to enjoy the view, bring up several small fish, and let them go again back to where they came from. Still, it was a great end to a really fun day!

After driving down from Waimea Canyon we made a 30 minute stop at Waimea Pier.

We hadn’t been to Waimea Pier since the crazy aweoweo run in 2003. Back then you just dropped your line down and up came an aweoweo in 5 seconds max!

Today however was a different story, no luck for us or the lady who was leaving as we arrived.

One of my favorite scenic places on Kauai is Waimea Canyon. The drive wasn’t too long from Koloa and the view was great that day!

Before heading back down and on to some fishing, we had some local cookies that we picked up at a small market. Yum!

On our way to Waimea, we stopped off in Koloa for lunch.

Here was the menu for that day on the wall…

And some fresh poke in the case.

He chose the ahi with wasabi cream sauce.

And I went with the hamburger steak. Both came with rice, salad, and mac salad, I thought that was nice. I really enjoyed the grilled onions along with everything else on my plate!

After brunch at Hamura’s, we made our way around the island to Kilauea and the Kong Lung Center. Here we stopped by to check out Kilauea Bakery & Pau Hana Pizza. I had been wanting to try the pizza so we shared the veggie slice above. I really enjoyed it and loved that they had artichoke hearts as a topping!

After that quick snack we continued driving around stopping at some beaches…

And did a little impromptu hand pole fishing on the side of the road.

We picked up some line, small hooks, and a couple shrimp at Foodland – then tied in on a stick I found at the beach (since we didn’t bring our poles with us)! It looked pretty funny but it worked!

Kilauea Bakery & Pau Hana Pizza
2484 Keneke St
Kong Lung Center
Kilauea, HI 96754

Finally unloading some photos off my camera! The next several posts will be from a previous trip to Kauai. We weren’t there for too long, but had a fun time eating our way around the island. First stop after landing was lunch at Hamura’s.

Started off with the special saimin and a tasty bbq beef stick…

Then we finished it off sharing a slice of lilikoi chiffon pie, mmmm.

Hamura Saimin Stand
2956 Kress Street
Lihue, HI 96766

I’ve been enjoying the new renovated look of Highway Inn as well as some of their new dishes. Right after their renovation, I noticed a lot of new items offered as specials. The Ahi Sliders with chili aioli above started as one of those specials and has now made it on to the regular menu!

This next one is Mahi mahi with teriyaki sauce. It isn’t a new item, but one that we tried for the first time recently. I’m not really a mahi person, but this one was so good. It was super moist and juicy and the teriyaki sauce was great.

But my favorite will always be the Beef Stew combo…mmmm.

Highway Inn
94-226 Leoku Street
Waipahu, HI 96797