Images of Kauai -- July 12, 2009 -- Ke'e Beach

I have had requests for more beach and more sunsets.  And, in truth, those things were on my agenda, too.  In particular, a trip to Ke'e Beach, which is the beautiful beach "at the end of the road" to Hanalei -- quite literally, the 10 mile marker is actually on the beach.  Ke'e is a lovely beach, one of my favorites on Kauai.  It has a reef for snorkeling and is one of the few beaches that doesn't really require reef shoes or flip flops in the water to avoid rocks and coral since the bottom is sandy.  It's also a fine sand beach with a smattering of black sand mixed in, which makes it seem like "dirtier" sand than it really is.  We headed out after Z's nap so that we could dip in the water, snorkel and watch the sun go down.  Because the beach faces pretty much directly due west, it's an incredible place to watch the sun go down from.  Some folks claim you can occasionally view a green flash here -- unfortunately, we've never seen it, but that doesn't make the sunset any less lovely.  Supposedly, Ke'e is also a favorite location of green sea turtles and Hawaiian monk seals, but neither of those lovely creatures made an appearance while we were there, either.

Perhaps the nicest thing that happened on our visit to this beach, was having Z discover that she could wade into the water deeper than her thighs -- and that she liked it.  Z comes from a long line of water babies on my side (my parents grew up in the the lake side town of Ludington, MI and I spent much time there and on other Michigan coastlines) so I figured she'd find her inner fish eventually. 

Sunsets will find their way to the blog tomorrow... still haven't figured out the best way to show the series I shot.