Hawaii Trip Spouting Horn and vendor shops

Hawaii Trip

Spouting Horn view and Vendor shops

We canceled our group tour up Waimea Canyon, rented an adorable little yellow Jeep, then headed out for a private tour of our own. Immediately after breakfast, we headed west out of the resort, starting the road trip without much of a plan, taking things as they came. It didn’t take long to find spouting horn and the vendor shops.

(The video has its own audio, you can hear the sound of the spouting horn, be patient as it does require waves to bring it to action.)

We made all the original target stops on the way out to Waimea Canyon, first was to Spouting Horn. To reach the Spouting horn you go past Poipu Beach on Lawai Road. The parking lot at spouting horn also have local vendors with stalls set up with a varied wares. We toured the stalls, finding imported goods, but excitingly, many local artisans were represented as well. The best part of these vendors was discovering price, and selection, were excellent; we made a few finds had been looking for:

• The first, a personal favorite, was a stall that selling woven baskets from a small tribe in the forest village of Tengana, pop. 300; the vendor explained that this technique is a dying art form. I would have loved to purchase one of each of these baskets, they had an incredible sale price, luggage dictated that I only purchased my favorite. You can see many of the works available at this outdoor vendor booth by visiting ATA Baskets, there is more information regarding the tribal history of these art pieces on this site.

 

 

• Vendor market purchases, the center piece is by local designer: Marta Howell, who typically uses mother of pearl and semi-precious stones. As soon as I saw this piece I knew it was something I needed to have for my collection. It was explained that Larimar (center stone) isn’t something Marta uses in her designs, making this a very unique piece. Larimar is a stone that comes the Dominican Republic, from a one sq. kilometer location on the island. Many people have never seen it, however, those that have seen it, find it recognizable immediately; it is also called the Atlantis stone. Larimar is considered a healing stone with metaphysical properties that is believed to “channel the energy of the sea and heaven to bring peace and tranquility,” Larimar is associated with the throat chakra and speech, communications and creativity. Perhaps I should always have it on my forehead as it is reported to create the flow of ideas, enhance energy and neutralize negativity.

I didn’t take a photo of the vendor booths but do have this nice shot by Doug Porter (Via: Summit Pacific) A video of our drive out and around the island, enjoy…