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THE OLD Lihue airport
building, 2 plantation house
sitting in red dust, used to
have a big sign that welcomed
-arrivals to “the wettest place
on earth.”

That was the nearby volcanic _
peak of Mount Waialeale, wher the

annual rainfall is,450, inches (1, 143-,
". ¢m), a staggering 37 feet (11. im).--

Visiting Canadians were not amised.

Happily, most of the rain falls
around the 5,200-ft. (1,560 m)
mountain and not on innocent
tourists who choose to come to the
spectacular Hawaiian island of .
‘Kauai. It wasn’t rain, but wind that
. gotto the TV newsman's mind at the
shiny new airport when the Fiesta |

, West/Canada 3000 Boeing 757
touched down after a battle with
strong headwinds all the-way from
Vancouver.

“The plane's late,” he said
uncharitably, He could have added it
would surf home on tailwinds like a
‘Tomcat,

The large group of dignitaries at
‘the airport was just happy to see the
‘full plane, which represented the
 first'non-stop flight from the main-

i land. Just-as pleased were the people”
-at the Kauai Marriott,’ where the’
arriving Canadians took 110 rooms,
‘almost a third of the hotel.....,.:;

- Nowhere on, (the Ha waiian’ chain
are the’ islanders so close, #6‘proud
- of their home, its natural beauty and ~
the fact it is the ieast commercial-
ized, Although it was the first island
visited by Captain Cook in’ 1778 it

was never conquered by the .war-like’; ‘i

King Kamehameha whose own royal:
compound ended up as Waikiki. -
-. While there are beaches where
- you and'your children cari i happily

"7 make sand castles from moming to

-mai-taitime,; many travellers come
. to Kauai, for the great outdoors —

caniping, kayaking and hiking in the ©

. huge canyons or in rainforests sprin-
_. Kled with plunging waterfalls.
' There are few more enchanting

Located at the Aldergrove /Lynden border crossing.

David Wishart photo
KAUAI MARRIOTT'S big pool is just steps from a lovely bay. The
Marriott also features Duke's Canoe Club, a restaurant where
guests step into a genuine Hawalian island ambience.

West can book golf times. As a
rental car is essential try‘to find
friends to share a vehicle with, we
used Budget which is the closest to

places on earth, particularly at sun-
set.

And so we drove up the east
coast to Hanalei Bay, where the nar-
_Jow.road winds between dense forest

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‘and a String Of curving sandy beach-’

es that beg to be photographed. It is
quiet here, just scattered houses on
-Stilts, a small store and a shack rent-
ing kayaking gear.
We carried on to Lumahai, the

the arrivals area and has: $ super-fast:
service: «| -*/ :

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- beach where scenes for South
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toad at Ke’e, the trail head of hiking

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One thing everyone must do is
eat at A Pacific Cafe, simply the best
restaurant in ail of Hawaii. The

' genius behind it is French, the fla-
vors delicately balanced as in the,
Thai curry soup which must have
inspired a new generation of Oliver
Twists, and the mahi mahi.

Otherwise stop by the Coconut
Marketplacé where fish n’ chips and
pizza can be enjoyed in the open: a
good place to take the kids.

Finally, with Fiesta West/Canada
3000 you can fly into Kauai, or any
of the four main islands for that mat-
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