It has been awhile for a post. Things have been going pretty smooth to round out the end of the summer. Quentin has started soccer and his first game is the 30th of August, pictures will follow. We bought him his first Hawaiian hand sling (hand spear). He got to go out in the shallow reef and got the hang of it really quick. He got several small fish and I took them out and used them as chum so they didn't go to waste. Now he is just like dad, can't wait for the weekend to go fishing.

Bob and Claudia (Jennifer's folks) came and visited. We got to go on a helicopter tour and pretty much explored every last region of Kauai. We had a good time as always.

Jennifer has been busy getting Q ready for school and keeping on him about his homework (full time job let me tell you). She hasn't had a lot of chances to get to the beach during the week, but hopefully that will change. We are coming up on our year in Hawaii (instate resident) quickly and she is going to go back to school at the University of Hawaii satellite campus here on Kauai starting in January.
I have been busy at work flying back and forth between Oahu and Kauai, almost weekly. We finished our big milestone on the project, we got the girders set. This was stressful leading up to it but it went very smoothly, without a hitch. The girders weigh 100,000lbs each and are 112 feet long. We had to do a tandem pick which makes setting them extremely dangerous. You are 5 times more likely to have an accident doing a tandem pick over a one crane pick. I worked close to 36 hours straight without any sleep, but caught up the following Sunday, let me tell you. The job is still on track and will be complete in November. We are hoping to stay of Kauai but you never know.

Pictures Top to Bottom:

Quentin at his new school, Island School. It is the best private school on the island.

The Spouting Horn in Po'ipu

The Waimea Canyon (also known as the Grand Canyon of the Pacific). The red arrow is the helicopter tour we took, the exact copter and route.

Kalalau Valley from the top. This is the Na Pali Coast. We stayed at the bottom of this valley on the beach.

Waimea Canyon from the Helicopter

Jurassic Falls - this is the water fall in the beginning of Jurassic Park, hence the name

This is the sleeping giant in Kapaa. The red arrow is where we live.

Kalalau Beach - Na Pali Coast. Here is the beach we were at after 11 mile hike. The rock in the ocean at the bottom of the picture is in front of the sea cave we slept in.

Quentin showing his catch. The fish about to get his ear is one I got and we ate that night, it was good eating.

This is the barge we used to get our precast bridge girders from Oahu to Kauai. The cranes are inside the house (the white part that says Young Brothers on it).

The cranes set up picking girder 2 of 6. It took all day to get all 6 set.

Girder 6 waiting to go into place.

We made it out to the Na Pali Coast this last week. To see pictures and trip report, Click on the Na Pali Coast Trip to the right. Other than this trip, not much else has been going on. We have been spending as many weekends as we can at the beach. Jennifer and Quentin hang out at the beach and in the shallow waters, and I have been going spearfishing as much as possible. The following pictures were dinner Sunday night, a little taco (raw octopus) and a good size reef fish. It was a good day in the water, even though the white tip reef sharks were out and about feeding.