Thunder & Lightning
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shannon_aSpent a quiet day today, as rest was needed after the deluge & hike of yesterday.
We did venture out a bit, going to our old stomping grounds around Poipu. We visited a t-shirt shop in Old Koloa where I got yet another cool t-shirt. Kimberly has been wearing fewer t-shirts in the last year, so wasn't enthused. Fortunately I had an idea for her to get her official-Kauia-souvenir.
So we went out to Spouting Horn next, where they have a little craft market. She found a nautilus shell necklace that as it happens was the exact same price as my t-shirt. So she got that as her freebie souvenir. But she liked the market enough that she also got a little gecko figure (which was a deal at $4) and a glass rectangular necklace.
We went over to Spouting Horn proper after that, where there's some rocks with holes, where water spouts up when a wave comes in. But no one was looking at it, instead focusing their attention out to sea. It turned out that there was a whale frolicking in the winter waves. My dad had binoculars and I got to see the whale breach a couple of times through them, which was totally amazing.
Throughout dinner tonight, we kept seeing sheet lightning outside the dining room window. After we finished eating, we turned off the lights and just watched it for a while. I totally love lightning and that's the #2 thing that I miss in the Bay Area's weather -- we almost never get lightning storms there. But tonight we watched it in the dark for 15 minutes or so, as the sky got lit up white and purple and pink and blue time and time again. We sadly saw no strokes of actual lightning, but that's apparently typical for the area.
Two+ hours later, we still have lightning out the window, though it's receded quite a bit to the north.
Cat sitter didn't mail us today, which is a bit of a niggling annoyance, as she said she would ever day. I'll bug her about it tomorrow if nothing turns up ...
We did venture out a bit, going to our old stomping grounds around Poipu. We visited a t-shirt shop in Old Koloa where I got yet another cool t-shirt. Kimberly has been wearing fewer t-shirts in the last year, so wasn't enthused. Fortunately I had an idea for her to get her official-Kauia-souvenir.
So we went out to Spouting Horn next, where they have a little craft market. She found a nautilus shell necklace that as it happens was the exact same price as my t-shirt. So she got that as her freebie souvenir. But she liked the market enough that she also got a little gecko figure (which was a deal at $4) and a glass rectangular necklace.
We went over to Spouting Horn proper after that, where there's some rocks with holes, where water spouts up when a wave comes in. But no one was looking at it, instead focusing their attention out to sea. It turned out that there was a whale frolicking in the winter waves. My dad had binoculars and I got to see the whale breach a couple of times through them, which was totally amazing.
Throughout dinner tonight, we kept seeing sheet lightning outside the dining room window. After we finished eating, we turned off the lights and just watched it for a while. I totally love lightning and that's the #2 thing that I miss in the Bay Area's weather -- we almost never get lightning storms there. But tonight we watched it in the dark for 15 minutes or so, as the sky got lit up white and purple and pink and blue time and time again. We sadly saw no strokes of actual lightning, but that's apparently typical for the area.
Two+ hours later, we still have lightning out the window, though it's receded quite a bit to the north.
Cat sitter didn't mail us today, which is a bit of a niggling annoyance, as she said she would ever day. I'll bug her about it tomorrow if nothing turns up ...
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Date: 2012-03-04 07:18 am (UTC)We get plenty of lightning here in the Houston area. (Or at least we do when we're not having horrendous drought conditions.)
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Date: 2012-03-04 06:13 pm (UTC)