Lowdown on the weekend........

It was mostly a beach weekend. Do I have the most boring life or what? It's always a beach weekend. What else is there to do on this island. I mean, we even go to the beach when it's cloudy for christ's sake. Saturday was our favorite beach, Salt Pond. Aptly named as the Hawaiians actually harvest salt there. For some reason unbeknownst to me the water at this particular beach is very salty. If you get out of the water and don't shower or wipe yourself off, when you are dry and rub your hand over yourself you actually have a layer of salt on you.

Then on the way home we stopped at Glass Beach. So named because the ocean off this beach used to be a dump (cars, glass, dishes, you name it). Mixed in with the sand is glass and pieces of pottery. There are also car parts, etc washed up on the rocks. This time of year the glass on the beach is mostly smaller pieces. In the winter when the big surf is on the North Shore the beach is larger pieces of glass. It's amazing how much glass there is on the beach. And it's all smooth because it's been tumbled by the ocean for years. Swimming at this beach is not a good idea because of sharp objects in the ocean. On the hillside overlooking the beach is an old Japanese cemetery. We've walked through the cemetery several times and some of the headstones are carved out of lava rock. There is a small building with an alter for burning incense and leaving offerings.

Today was errand day, then the beach again (living on this island you gotta love the outdoors - hiking, beach, fishing, hunting, surfing, bodyboarding, snorkeling, off-road 4-wheeling, moto-x, rodeo, etc). We tried for Salt Pond again but it was too cloudy so we ended up at Maha'ulepu. This is an untouched stretch of beach just beyond the Poipu Bay Golf Course (home of the PGA Grand Slam of Golf - Tiger Woods usually plays this). It was mostly sunny there today and there were several people para-sailing. It's close to CJM Stables which offers horseback rides. While we were there about 6 people on horses went by on their way back to the stables.

So that's my exciting weekend in paradise.

I'd like to say there was wild sex, crazy parties, etc., but that doesn't seem to be my lifestyle anymore. Now when I was younger and didn't have a child.....someday those stories will be told.

Stay tuned............