Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Kauai Day 3 - a spectacular helicopter tour and celebration event

Wednesday started with a run, this time the other direction on the sidewalk towards poipu beach. 


The highlight was going to the Jack Harter Doors off Helicopter Tour… in a word, it was INCREDIBLE! We took the one hour doors-off tour of the island including Waimea Canyon, the Na-pali coast, craters with numerous waterfalls, etc. We both got to sit in the front of the helicopter with Dani in the middle (next to our pilot, Jason), and Jared near the open door. The front seat felt so small that Jared felt like he was going to fall out sometimes! Even though it felt very smooth, when Jared would stick his hand out, he could feel just how fast we were going, especially when we flew through the rain.



Waimea was just as beautiful from the air as it was on the drive the prior day. From the air, we could see the entire canyon even better, including huge waterfalls.


The Napali Coast was incredible - the water a striking blue with cliffs, beaches, and canyons everywhere - all inaccessible except by water, one hiking trail, or air.



One of the final stops was the "Wall of Tears" on Mount Waialeale. Mount Waialeale, the wettest place on earth, has so much rainfall that the water seemingly just leaks out of the vertical, green walls and forms high waterfalls. We even saw a full circle rainbow! 



After the helicopter Jared went back to work on celebration event prep (where Jason Widing presented Michael H and Tyler A the most funny blanket!). Dani read at the lagoon at the resort with Paige. The celebration event was at 4 in the ballroom at the resort. It was yet another spectacular celebration event, where we announced and celebrated the merger of Precoa and the Outlook Group. 



 

After the event we went out to dinner with a large group at the eating house again … this time we tried several appetizers including the spicy orange chicken wings and the pork and shrimp potstickers.  For Dinner Jared had Kamameshi with butterfish and I had the kale salad and the huli huli pork belly appetizer and we shared all 3.  We also had the chocolate souffle for dessert.

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