THURSDAY - 8-18-16 - LAST STOP - ISLAND OF KAUAI.  Today, we took our sweet time in the morning and just took it slow.  No hurry, no worry.  We had a great breakfast on the ship, went for a drive on Kauai and saw some great waterfalls.  This is Opaekaa Falls.  We saw a guy there in the parking lot selling sea shells that he turned into turtles.  They were pretty cool.  They were magnets that he put on the hood of his car.  He called them "Turtles from the Hood".  I thought it was pretty creative.  I was impressed with his creativity so we bought one "turtle from the hood". 

Kauai is of course part of the Hawaiin islands and it has the nickname, "the Garden Isle".  There is a tropical rain forest that covers most of the island.  It has dramatic cliffs and pinnacles on the Na Pali Coast and it has a canyon that they call the Grand Canyon of the pacific islands - "Waimea Canyon".  

I took the four oldest on a float tube trip down an old irrigation ditch through the rain forest.  It was a great adventure.  While we did that, Heidi and Ella went to a great park and rode the train, went to a petting zoo, and played on a great playground.  Here are some pictures of their adventure.

We got some great go-pro videos of our tubing excursion, but no photos I can post.  But, we did get this one.  There was a series of 5 tunnels that we went through.  The kids and I enjoyed getting in the water, seeing the rainforest from a different perspective and enjoying the outdoors.