MY KAUAI JOURNAL 2010

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Matt724

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So today, me and my family flew in from LAX to Lihue Airport in Kauai, Hawaii and are staying at the Marriot hotel for 7 days and then some other hotel on the south side of the island for 3 days. The hotel is unbelievably beautiful. The first thing I saw at the hotel made me fall in love, a huge pond with SO many fish. Hundreds of koi, swans, ducks, thousands of platies and billions of platy fry and tadpoles. (Might just snag a few and ship some back home to grow out :naughty:). I went snorkeling too, since the hotel is right on a cove, and though there are very few fish, I did spot a nice school of minnows and a nice school of some sort of carp-looking silver fish (I know nothing about SW fish) but leading into the cove is a river and when I was looking over the bridge I saw hundreds of fish of different sizes. There was one I saw that looked something like an african butterfly fish/banjo catfish, but couldn't get too good of a look because we had to leave. I'll be posting pictures (mostly relavent to fish) of my trip here for you guys to look at and in case I need an ID of some fish.

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Day 2, so far we've been paddle-boarding since 10 in the morning and there were some tide pool rocks, nearby so me, my brother, and my cousin decided to try and catch some fish with some testtube we found on the beach and some sticks. Once we caught one, I (surprisingly) instantly knew what kind of fish they were from a TFH article last year. They were blennies. We caught 8. Here are some pictures: If someone can ID them that'd be great. Thanks

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Kauai is by far the most amazing place in the whole world!
More pictures! :D
 
nice, keep an eye out of the cast of the pirates of the caribbean, they're staying there :cool: when we were there last week we talked to some people who said penolope cruze was in front of them at check in
 
wow I love the last pic from the first set of photos you posted =] looks like you are having fun and it looks beautiful there.
 
HiImSean;4260041; said:
nice, keep an eye out of the cast of the pirates of the caribbean, they're staying there :cool: when we were there last week we talked to some people who said penolope cruze was in front of them at check in

Oh sweet! Thanks for the tip. I'll keep an eye out for them.
 
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