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	<title>A Kauai Blog</title>
	<link>http://great-hikes.com/blog</link>
	<description>Living and hiking on the island of Kauai</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:10:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Whales Offshore</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:49:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Maps</category>
	<category>Fauna</category>
	<category>Kayaking</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We've had several periods of very calm seas recently, and some friends borrowed our kayak one weekend to go offshore at Kealia beach. They paddled out over two miles and had an incredible encounter with the whales. It is illegal to approach whales in any boat, and a friend on Maui was cited by a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pink and Blue</title>
		<link>http://great-hikes.com/blog/pink-and-blue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 00:51:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Weather</category>
	<category>Fauna</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I've been slowing down with the sunrises, but not for a lack of them. They're getting earlier and earlier, and I've slept through a few good ones. Last Wednesday, it was worth getting up at 6:20 am to catch this one:




You can see 3 bird silhouettes in the sky here, those are the white cattle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snorkeling Photos</title>
		<link>http://great-hikes.com/blog/snorkeling-photos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2005 20:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Beaches</category>
	<category>Fauna</category>
		<guid>http://great-hikes.com/blog/snorkeling-photos/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I don't know whether I'm more excited to have an underwater digital camera or to show you the photos I took with it. I'll start with the photos here and present the camera in another post.

Yesterday, we went snorkeling at Beach House beach, the tiny beach in Poipu that has the best snorkeling on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rainbow Wrasse</title>
		<link>http://great-hikes.com/blog/rainbow-wrasse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2005 22:31:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Beaches</category>
	<category>Fauna</category>
		<guid>http://great-hikes.com/blog/rainbow-wrasse/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sorry for the hiatius, I've been very busy with my day job.

I was even working over the weekend, but we still had time to go snorkeling down in Poipu. We went to Beach House beach where there are always so many fish to see. There are two things I like there: the Beach House restaurant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SHARK!</title>
		<link>http://great-hikes.com/blog/shark/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2005 18:34:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Fauna</category>
		<guid>http://great-hikes.com/blog/shark/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We finally saw a shark here on Kauai, right at our favorite swimming beach. And not just one, but two. However,  they were both small young ones that had washed up dead in one of the storms last week. They were drying out on the sand and being eaten by crabs and insects, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Up the Wailua River</title>
		<link>http://great-hikes.com/blog/up-the-wailua-river/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2005 22:17:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Fauna</category>
	<category>Kayaking</category>
		<guid>http://great-hikes.com/blog/up-the-wailua-river/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the weekend, we went exploring with our Kayak on the Wailua river. We launced from the beach, right between the bridges. First, we paddled upstream on the really wide part of the river. At the branch, we took the left side, which is the South Fork. A little ways futher we landed at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kalihi</title>
		<link>http://great-hikes.com/blog/kalihi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2005 20:14:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Fauna</category>
		<guid>http://great-hikes.com/blog/kalihi/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It turns out that Sonja wants to keep the orphaned kitten she saved from the pound. We ended up naming him Kalihi, since we found him at Kalihiwai beach. One meaning of "ka lihi" is "the speck" or "the crumb" which I guess is fitting while he's small.

He is very cute and playful, but sometimes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Island of the Apes</title>
		<link>http://great-hikes.com/blog/planet-of-the-apes/</link>
		<comments>http://great-hikes.com/blog/planet-of-the-apes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2005 20:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Blogging</category>
	<category>Environment</category>
	<category>Tourism</category>
	<category>Fauna</category>
		<guid>http://great-hikes.com/blog/planet-of-the-apes/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently discoverd Monkeywire.org, which has lots of interesting articles about primates in their archives. Many articles report on the latest behavioral research,  wherein we learn that primates mourn their dead, understand money, steal only when others are not watching, try to fit in, and pick up
human habits such as smoking.

With more research, we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Popoki</title>
		<link>http://great-hikes.com/blog/popoki/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2005 19:49:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Fauna</category>
		<guid>http://great-hikes.com/blog/popoki/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In order to give us some practice for being parents, we have been taking care of a kitten that we found last weekend near Kalihiwai Beach. It's not one of the wild cats you see around the island, a local fisherman found it in his garage and was going to take it to the pound. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goats and Coconuts</title>
		<link>http://great-hikes.com/blog/goats-and-coconuts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2005 23:31:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Fauna</category>
		<guid>http://great-hikes.com/blog/goats-and-coconuts/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is just a whimsical photo taken near the Foodland shopping center in Waipouli, halfway between our house and downtown Kapaa. Even in Hawaii it is rare to see animals grazing in a coconut grove, especially in a shopping district. Kauai still has some rural charm to it.

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