Day 10 - Mild Side

We started the day with 'church on the beach.' Walking on the beach nearest our condo, we asked God to give us each a verse that we could talk about. We brought along a bible, walked along for a while, and later shared the verse we got. To our delight, we both were impressed with verses from Colossians 3. Dianna got Col. 3:8, I just heard Col. 3. The interesting thing is that Col. 3:8 has been the "theme" verse for my fast. We got a nice chance to chat about what God was doing through this time of R&R and what may come next. That was FUN! We definitely missed worshiping with brothers and sisters from the Bridge, though.

We did another mild, but not completely mellow, day exploring some different and new-to-us beaches. The first two were kind of off the beaten track and weren't really swimming beaches. We decided to check out two of the south shore's hangouts for the locals. These are beaches that are beautiful for very different reasons, but share a common theme...the surf is far too dangerous and violent for swimmers, but it's great for surfers and windsurfers.


Oh, did I mention that we saw, and took pictures of, a beached monk seal too? Oh yeah.

We found this beauty on Gillin's Beach. It's located east of Poipu.









We drove east on the same dirt road that took us to Gillin's Beach to find the eastern most beach on the south shore, Ha'ula, famous for the lithified sand formations. These formations are created by the wind and salt spray from the waves that crash below. As far as we've been able to tell, this is the only place on the island where these formations exist.

And...yeah...there's a person up there on the point of that cliff, a local - fishing.















So, how do you top looking at these bizarre and wonderful creations of nature? We were pretty hungry by then so we headed for Poipu Shopping Center and got a world famous Puka Dog. It's essentially a grilled Polish Sausage in a very unique bun. Instead of a sliced bun like you normally see, the bun is formed with a hole (puka, in Hawaiian) down the length to accomodate the sausage. They also have some very cool, tropical condiments. We chose the Mango Relish. Check out the link it's cool.


Later, we headed off to Poipu beach to snorkel and lie around for a bit, but with all the clouds (yes, our first full day of clouds), it was a bit cool so we only stayed an hour or two.

Well, that's really all I have for now. Aloha!