At anchor in Hanalei Bay
Our intrepid crews enjoyed a long night of much needed sleep in a calm anchorage and awoke refreshed and ready to adventure.
No voyage to Hanalei is complete without a foray into the darkest interiors of Kauai via the Hanalei river. After breakfast the crews of both boats boarded their dinghies vowing to delve deeper into Kauai's unexplored wilderness than any before us. Feeling as Lewis and Clark must have, we pushed in over the bar, around Black Pots beach, past the Dolphin restaurant, under the one lane Hanalei Bridge, and deep into the hau forest. After proceeding a couple of miles upstream the waterway was narrowed by dense forest to the point that our small inflatable boats could proceed no further. We claimed this wild and untamed wilderness in the name of Kaneohe Yacht Club, dedicated the journey to our lovely wives who are undoubtedly pining away for us at home, and turned around.
Shortly thereafter Bo's new outboard engine sputtered to a stop, and we discovered that the gas tank was empty. If I recall 7th grade history correctly, the same thing happened to Lewis and Clark! Fortunately for us, Puanani's dinghy had plenty of gas and they were able to tow us back to civilization.
The squadron stopped on the way back to the anchorage for shaved ice at Jojo's to make up for the humiliation of being towed out of the wilderness.
We all decided that a quiet afternoon aboard was just what was needed after all that excitement.
At 5PM I looked up to see The Mighty Starr powering into Hanalei Bay! Frequent readers of this blog will recall that Starr was the 78 foot power boat that Clay and I voyaged on to Alaska in 2018 and back to Hawaii on in 2019.
Don and Sharry, Starr's owners, wasted no time in getting anchored, launching their dinghy, and coming over to say hello and invite us all over for sunset cocktails.
The crews of Puanani, Maka'oi'oi, and Pazzo converged on Starr shortly thereafter where we all enjoyed catching up with Don and Sharry and watching the day end. No green flash tonight, but it was magical anyway.
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