I've opened a Vacation Rental Nov.2007!  Click HERE to check it out.  I wrote in this blog for 2 years and now after 3 years I'm excited to say I AM HERE Permanently!  Come over and visit, I know you'll love it!  Dawn 10/20/08

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Isabelle, the hostess preparing

Buddy the host preparing the grilled fruit... Mmmmm Mmm

Some of the partiers

Todd relaxing before everyone shows up

Amy (runs a gallery), Isabelle and Todd just before the sunset

Isabelle with one of the "boys", her dogs.

As we were eating...Island of Nihau - The forbidden Island that has recently opened up with "safari" 1/2 day tours

New Nihau web page and old reference:

Nihau - The Forbidden Island
Across the Kaulakohi Channel off Kauai's west coast lies a dry, barren island 18-miles long and about six-miles wide. With the population of roughly 250 people, it is almost exclusively Hawaiian. Visitors are kapu or off-limits to step-foot on the island, even to longtime residents of Kauai.

The reason of this is because back in 1864, the Sinclair family bought Nihau from King Kamehameha V. It has descended down from generation to generation to where it is own today by Kauai's wealthy Robinson family. Everyone who lives on Nihau, works for the Robinson family.

Today, Nihau is the last hold-out of the simple Hawaiian life of long ago and is the only island where Hawaiian is still the principal language spoken. People continue to live in small wooden houses where their is no guns, liquor, jails, telephones, sewers nor electricity. However, Nihau's small school has an Apple computer running on solar energy; so they are not entirely living in the stone age.

I've heard that only people who are true Hawaiian (no mix) or have a lot of money may visit the island. Since I don't have either qualifications, I doubt I'll ever visit this island, except in a distance. The island is part of Kauai County.