With all these early mornings (again up at 4:30 but managed to get a few extra hours in after) it just seem logical that continue I write my blog first thing in the morning. It gives me something to do while the rest of Hawaii is still sleeping!
Yesterday was an amazing day for street food! We started out at the KCC's Framers' Market around 9:30. This farmers market has obviously morphed from actual farmers selling what they have grown (there were a few) to a tourist stop. Besides the great number of tour buses, I would say about half were street eats and the rest were food based souvenirs like Hawaiian salt (I got some black salt) and honey.
Anna and I decided to buy brunch there, Anna had the a wood-fired pesto pizza and I had the best sandwich I had ever had. It was so good I forgot to take a picture! It was a super messy vietnamese chicken sandwich. It was so flavourful and fresh! It had a cabbage slaw and a basil mint pesto. It was really glorious!
On the way out we each got an Ono Pop (for those who don't know Ono means delicious!) From the intensely long list of options I was drawn to trying something new so after some discussion with the Ono Pop guy, I went for the Kula Strawberry Maui Goat Cheese. It was seriously good... the tart goat cheese with the sweet strawberry was so amazing! You can just taste the real flavours of the popsicles.
From there we headed up to the North Shore. We took the highway along the edge of the island up to Haleiwa. We did this in March but last time I was driving... this time Anna was driving. I think I spent the whole time either saying "wow, I didn't see this last time" or "wow, did you see this!?" It is seriously beautiful drive up to the North Shore. Every turns is a beautiful beach or mountain view.
We continued on to Shark Cove Beach or Pupukea Beach. I had expressed that when I was in Hawaii many years ago I was very disappointed in the snorkeling in Hanauma Bay. I saw like five fish when I went... so Anna said we had to check out this beach instead.
After setting out the dill pickle salsa we bought at the farmer's market; a bizarre but super tasty addition on salsa, and discussing at length what could be done to improve on the salsa, I set out to snorkel. The red flag was up warning of rip tides so I did not want to go too far out or for too long.
After a very unsuccessful attempt to get into the water... The waves kept just bringing me back to shore which I think explains why I had sand everywhere when I later changed into my clothes, I managed to get in deep enough to see the coral from another location. It was really great! There were many different types of fish, long skinny silver fish, round flat fish with black, white, and orange markings, a small groups or grey fish. I'm also convinced I saw a clown fish... it was orange and had white and black strips... they just didn't go all the way down like Nemo... so who knows maybe a different type of fish but he was certainly the most colourful one I saw! My photo of the area does no justice of the beautiful beach and water... but what it does include is evergreen trees they have in Hawaii which I thought was surprising.
Speaking of surprising things, I'm starting a new thing for each blog post in Hawaii... a flower of the post. I have been truly amazed at the flowers here... there are SO many different types and colours. And seeing as this vacation is all about relaxing, I thought I most definitely need to add stopping to appreciated the flower beauty around me! This was one of my more amazing flower moments. They are flowers in flowers... blew my mind...
On the way back home we stopped at the Eat the Street event. I had been looking for some more local things to do while I was here and this popped up. It's kinda like a community block party with a giant collection of food trucks and food stall vendors. The plan was to tour around all the vendors and then make our dinner choices. We didn't quite make it half way through when we saw Paul's Poppers. They are hand folder wontons with interesting fillings inside. We decided to give 'em a whirl! We tried three cheese jalapeño and three spinach artichoke. They were super delicious!
After completing the rounds we both decided to go back to the Food Truck who's claim to fame is producing Healthy Food! I got the Thai Beef Salad and Anna got the tofu curry. Both were good but we did not give raving food truck reviews. Sad that the healthy food truck that we hopped would have amazing flavour was just memph, memph. Other interesting things but neither of us had any interest in trying included hotdogs cooked in waffles, plate lunches, heavy soul food, and rib and pork BBQ.
From there we headed home and we were both exhausted... we both headed to bed early and I was out by 8:30.
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