Kauai, Day 8: Shopping in Kapa’a, Opaeka’a Falls and one last plate lunch

Ono family restaurant
Aloha blog! Welcome to Day 8, our last full day in Kauai. Sniff sniff. Josh went paddle boarding early that morning on the Wailua River, and then we went back to the always fabulous Ono Family restaurant for another delicious breakkie.

beautiful glass window shopping
While Josh returned our paddle boards, I did a little shopping by myself near our hotel in downtown Kapa’a. This glass shop had incredible glass jewelry. I managed to restrain myself to a simple pair of triangle-shaped glass studs (I’m into triangles this year), but, given enough money…I would have bought several pieces. Heigh ho!

extremely humid orchid alley
Even though it was in the 80’s already that morning and insanely humid, I nevertheless had to walk into “Orchid Alley”, at which point I nearly passed out from the humidity. I quickly snapped some photos of the most gorgeous variety of orchids I’d even seen until a salesperson waved their arms at me and I noticed a huge sign overhead that said NO PHOTOGRAPHY. Whoops.

neon pink orchid
Orchids aren’t even my favorite flowers and I was still impressed. One of them had a chocolate scent!

L and J near Opeka'a Falls
After Josh returned to Kapa’a to pick me up, we stopped at Ono again for shave ice and then went to check out the beautiful Opaeka’a Falls. A stranger kindly offered to take our picture.

Opeka'a Falls
So lovely.

Opeka'a Falls II
This was a very popular tourist spot, as you can imagine.

J and the waterfall
Josh’s shirt received a lot of favorable attention from the old hippies of Kauai.

Wailua River
Nearby, the Wailua River where he went paddleboarding that morning. My shoulders weren’t up for another paddle boarding day, unfortunately.

coconut grove
Another pass by the coconut grove.

sweaty tropical faces
Shiny happy people!

J near the coconut grove

last plate lunch at the Imu Hut
It was fitting that we had our final plate lunch at the place we had our first plate lunch, “Da Imu Hut”. Mmmm hmmmmmm. I can’t sing the praises of plate lunch enough.

Liz is in love with flowers
After the Imu Hut, we hit up Kauai Coffee for goodies and gifts to bring back home. I fell in love with these flowers again.

Coming up next: one last snorkeling experience! A nighttime street art fair! And I finally get lei’d!

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