Still recovering from our extended boat trip yesterday, we didn’t leave the condo until 10am this morning. We’ve normally been out the door before 8am and close to 7:30am on days we hit up Ke’e Beach.
Today we visited Poipu Beach Park for the first time. I don’t think it was the best day to visit as the tradewinds and southern swells were strong enough to make for poor visibility snorkeling and cloudless skies for hot, hot beach front sand. We actually stayed quite awhile and I did some snorkeling in the waves, taking Autumn with me on my 2nd outing. Good photos were hard to come by but I did get some more pics of moorish idols and juvenile wrasses. Got a fairly clean video of a lone threadfin butterfly you can check out.
download movie of threadfin butterflyWas able to get see a couple of 4 spotted Butterfly fish as well as a baby 4 spotted hiding underneath a rock. Planning to go shopping the rest of the afternoon we hopped back into the car after eating lunch on the beach.
Aiden was tired so we drove up to Spouting Horn again so Krista and Autumn got to shop the street vendors there while Aiden slept in the car. They actually have some good deals, recommended. On the way back we were treated to yet another surprise honu visit to Beach House. Just off the road there were 5 turtles playing in the waves right near the rocky shoreline. I hopped out of the car and started taking video and some pictures. After awhile of them still hanging around I had no choice but to jump in the suit and join them. Granted, I put on the trunks nude in broad daylight and jumped in a fairly rocky, rough section of Beach House with some nice swells but what the heck, I’m on a vacation for adventure, right?
Viewing them from in the water was fairly murky due to the swells so all of the underwater shots didn’t turn out so hot. The above photo is of the largest honu landing on the hard rocky shoreline then awaiting another wave to take him back out. Looked like it hurt but alas, he has a hard shell and I don’t 
A few more photos are posted in the Kauai gallery under day ten, enjoy!