{"id":45,"date":"2004-11-15T17:07:45","date_gmt":"2004-11-15T09:07:45","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-07-26T15:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T07:25:11","slug":"the_dry_side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/2004\/11\/15\/the_dry_side\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dry Side…"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a number of days dodging rainstorms, I was looking forward to seeing the sunny side of Kauai. I made the long trip halfway around the island (about a 45-minute drive) down to Salt Pond Park on a Sunday afternoon. Well, I blessed the lucky stars that I didn’t schedule a Friday or Saturday night at this place because it was party city. Sunday afternoon was still pretty busy, party-wise, but things finally simmered down in the late evening as families packed up their celebrations and went home to rest up for the coming workweek.<\/p>\n

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Polihale State Park, Island of Kauai, Hawai’i<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Salt Pond was a pretty nice little spot with a nice sandy beach and a nice calm surf (something hard to find in Kauai this time of year). Like just about every Hawaiian campground I came across, you were expected to park your car far away from your tent. I suppose this is all part of their efforts to discourage long-term campers, but I found it a bit unnerving to park in dark, isolated places late at night without being able to stay near my car. I had a dream sleeping here about repeated car crashes down the road from my office in a city office building, only to wake up and realise I was listening to the sound of the surf crashing just meters from my tent. I think I slept closer to the crashing surf here than anywhere else. High tide must have just missed me by ten feet or so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a number of days dodging rainstorms, I was looking forward to seeing the sunny side of Kauai. I made the long trip halfway around the island (about a 45-minute drive) down to Salt Pond Park on a Sunday afternoon. Well, I blessed the lucky stars that I didn’t schedule a Friday or Saturday night… Continue reading The Dry Side…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,25,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hawaii","category-kauai-the-garden-island","category-united-states","without-featured-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3sHuW-J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}