Queen's Bath

Rob, being a Royalist and all, insisted we visit "Queen's Bath" in Kaua'i. Described by, you guessed it, The Ultimate Kaua'i Guidebook as "a large pool the size of several swimming pools carved by nature into a lava shelf, Queen's Bath is a marvelous pool to swim in." We went once before but there was no parking left. Today we went back in the afternoon and just about found a spot. When we walked down the trail, we could see a large pool below and to the right and knew this had to be the spot, but when we arrived, there was so much surf coming in there was no chance of swimming in it. The beauty was that there were several sea turtles really enjoying the surf so we sat, completely mesmerized, watching them for 30 minutes or more.





From there, we walked along the waters' edge and admired the scenery.



The afternoon rain left us with a big rainbow and my pot of gold at the end of it.


As we were just about to go, it occurred to me that the guidebook mentioned that during the summer, when the surf is lower, the water often doesn't get refresed as much as it should be. The amount of surf coming into the pool we were at seemed like way too much to be this place they were describing so we continued further along the shoreline and, sure enough, we had been at the wrong spot the whole time. The beauty of it, at this point, is that most everyone had left and we were two of only four people remaining. Rob and I dove in the pool and it was lovely and warm and there were lots of fish in there but most interesting were these small crabs with florescent streaks on them. The other two people left and Rob and I were the last people there as the sun was setting. It was magic.