After spending more than a year on this island of Kaua'i a couple of years ago, we still didn't manage to get around to all of the beaches! Now this beach, called Glass Beach, isn't very big at all and doesn't have a lot to recommend it - other than it's beauty. (Duh.)
It's called Glass Beach because decades ago it was a dumping ground and there was a huge amount of broken glass. The operative word there is "decades." If there is any glass there now it has been ground up as small as the grains of coarse sand. Granpa hopped out to take a picture - I thought he was taking the beach...
But it seems to be completely absent from this picture!
So much for thinking! So, he hops back in the car, and we continue on the dirt road for maybe a quarter of a mile up a little cliff and down to - an ancient cemetery. I mean "ancient." Some of the marker stones are just slabs of stone with hand-etched (but no longer discernible) information. We talked about getting a picture ...
But then both our attentions were drawn out to sea:
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| Uhhh. That splash is bigger than that boat... |
Good grief!! That whale is right on the boat - and there's a guy standing right on the bow!
Way too close! There's laws against hasseling the whales in their breeding grounds here!!
I can't watch any more of this!!!
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