Wednesday Review
It is well-known that the north side of the island of Kauai gets more rain, but we are getting it almost every day. This has made it somewhat challenging to get sustained sunshine on any of the northern beaches. As such, we’ve become good at planning at switching to a Plan B.
On Wednesday, we set out to explore Secret Beach, but as soon as we arrived to the entry point, a big rain started. Thankfully, we hadn’t taken the 10-15 minute hike in which would have been dreadful to walk out of in the rain. So we wandered down to Moloa’a, but the same clouds and rain persisted. So we set in motion Plan B.
Plan B involved driving along the east part of the island through Kapa’a and down into Lihue. Once there, we decided to visit Hilo Hattie’s to supplement our souvenir and fashion collections for the trip. I bought a couple of nice Hawaiian shirts earmarked for future evening events on our trip. I also bought a couple of workout tank-tops which need to be worn out as I look at pictures of myself from this trip. 
We bought a few Kauai calendars for ourselves and our immediate family. Suzanne bought a few notecards and some comfy (she says) pajamas.
We ventured on to Nawiliwili Harbor where we once again dined at Duke’s. We generally go to Duke’s a couple of times a trip since we love the view. However, we didn’t anticipate our second visit to come so soon. After buying a couple of more things we made our way back north to our house.
We experienced our first real episode of nastiness from a local on Wednesday. As we made our way back, we had to go through Kapa’a at "rush hour". While its not a Dallas rush hour, there are still plenty of cars and it will slow you down considerably. At one point, I got trapped in a turn lane and a local ensured that I would not be able to get back over. This caused us to have to turn into a shopping center and fall into a long line of cars trying to get out. This added about 15 minutes to our trip.
We have heard various stories about ill will toward tourists, but had never experienced it. I guess I can understand it to some degree, but it seems to me that Kauai lives off the tourist industry either directly or indirectly. Even if you don’t provide service directly to a touris, you probably provide service to a business that provides services to tourists directly. It was probably an isolated case, but it had never happened to us.
Though not a beach day, it was a good day, all in all.