Trip Activities
Weekly Art Walk in Hanapepe, Kauai
Author Alexine
If you visit the island of Kauai in Hawaii than you will not want to miss out on the weekly art walk in Hanapepe. This beautiful old town has been gutted, refurbished and turned into quite the little character. With delicious food and fun music to enjoy, you can walk the streets admiring local artists every Friday evening on your visit to Kauai.
Food
There are several great little places to grab a place to eat down in Hanapepe including some delicious barbeque pork and chicken. The Hanapepe Bakery is also a wonderful little place to have a special dinner on Friday nights if you make reservations. They fill up fast so make sure you call ahead.
In addition to cute little places to eat there are several trucks that make their way throughout the island and park in Hanapepe for art walk night every Friday. There is currently a truck that makes delicious authentic Thai food and Thai iced tea. Also they have a taco truck that prepares some delicious fresh fish tacos.
While dinner is delicious you have to save some room for the yummy pies that are baked fresh and served at art walk. There is a local baker that brings an assortment of fun flavors every week so you can try different ones or purchase a whole pie to take back to your home away from home.
Music
As a wonderful form of art music is abundant at the Hanapepe art walk. There are plenty of local musicians that rotate the art walk each week. With guitars and singing there is a mix of new age and old school Hawaiian music that is sure to get you and your children up and dancing.
Make sure you wear some comfortable shoes so that you can walk around and dance for all the great musicians. The main street in Hanapepe where the art walk is can be long for little ones so pack a stroller when you visit. Then the whole family can enjoy an evening of fun music and dancing.
Galleries
The main street in Hanapepe is full of great little art galleries that host a variety of art types from mostly local artists. There is plenty for sale if you would like to take a little piece of Kauai home with you as well. With so many different types of artists in Kauai there is sure to be an artist that suits your taste for artwork in your home.
When you visit the galleries some of the local artists will be part of art walk so you can meet them in person. It is great to chat with the gallery owners and workers as well to get a feel for the artist if they are not present. Most of the people selling there are down to earth and friendly so you can ask as many questions as needed.
Enjoy the Evening
Since every Friday night is an art walk in Hanapepe you should try to go as many times as you can while you are on the island. Each week there are different local artists out selling on the streets and bringing different types of delicious edible art as well. Enjoy your stay on Kauai and remember to stop by Hanapepe on Friday evening while you are there.
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Fun Things to Visit at Mall of America
Author Alexine
While the Mall of America has all of your favorite clothing stores and shops you would normally see at a mall it also has a lot more. There are many extra shops and other fun things to do while you visit the largest mall in the United States. Next time you are in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area you should stop in and visit this huge indoor fun house. Listed below are some of the fun things you can visit at the Mall of America.
Plan a Visit Hull Massachusetts
Author Alexine
The town of Hull is a wonderful little town on the south shore of Massachusetts. It is the perfect place to take your family for a vacation in the summer months. The weather is nice and the beach stretches for miles. There are plenty of activities for any age group so you never have to worry about things to do. To help plan your summer vacation in Hull here are some of the wonderful opportunities the town has to offer.
Nantasket Beach
The town of Hull is a peninsula so there is plenty of beautiful water view. There is a bay on one side and an ocean on the other. The ocean side of the town is where Nantasket Beach is located. You cannot miss this beautiful attraction as it is well marked all over the south shore.
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Plan a Visit to Cape Ann Massachusetts
Author Alexine
The beautiful town of Rockport is located in Cape Ann near the northern most part of Massachusetts’s coastline. This old town has been an ideal destination for visitors for many decades. With plenty of beautiful scenery and surrounded by beaches this is a wonderful vacation spot for your family and friends. To help plan your visit here are some fun things to do while vacationing in Cape Ann Massachusetts.
Lighthouses
There are five gorgeous lighthouse locations on Cape Ann’s coastline including the spectacular Twin Lighthouses. These two lighthouses were built in 1789 and have been lighting the coast of Rockport. The other four lighthouses were constructed in the 1800s so there is plenty of history behind these magnificent structures.
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Martha’s Vineyard is The Perfect Vacation Spot
Author Alexine
If you make a plan to visit the north eastern part of the United States this summer, save a day or two for a trip Martha’s Vineyard. This little island south of Falmouth Massachusetts is a wonderful getaway for families and friends. With ocean views abundant and lots of little places to see there is sure to be something for everyone. Here are some helpful tips to make your trip to Martha’s Vineyard more enjoyable.
Reach Cast: Scam Fish To Bite
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Reach Cast: scam fish to snap up your lure!
Reach Cast: scam fish to snap up your lure
The “Reach Cast” is a variation of fly fishing technique, enabling you to put your fly line upstream so that the lure will be able to reach the fish before the line does. Reach casting is traditionally only done in freshwater streams and rivers where there is a water current involved — even though oceans have currents as well, salt water fishing while standing in the water is mostly performed along shorelines where a reach cast technique would not work in the surf.
The reach cast is particularly effective to improve your scam for tricking fish to bite! When it’s paired up with a crafty fly, the combination is super-effective.
As you may know, trout, bass and other game fish can be clever in their own way, and they’re often savvy to going after lures which are very obviously attached to some longer thing such as your fishing line. So, the reach cast is a technique which allows you to cast your line way out and position the line upstream and away from the fish so that it will be less noticeable to them. The goal is also to enable the lure to fall into the water and float naturally with the current without any unnatural motions that could make the fish skittish.
A reach cast is performed by casting as you usually would, but as soon as your forward stroke is made and while the fishing line is still zooming and unfurling out into the air, you reach your arm and the fly rod out to one side in an upstream direction. The more distance you achieve in moving the tip of your rod upstream, the more upstream the fly line will be when it hits the water. The overall goal is to get the fly line to be a few feet upstream from the fly itself. This will allow your lure to approach the fish before the fly line does.
You will probably need to keep a little bit of loose slack in the line so that when you make the reach near the end of your cast, it won’t jerk the the line back sharply.
Ideally, the reach cast allows the fly to land lightly upon the water just as a live insect would, and the line to softly drape into the water upstream of it, nearly like a natural ripple in the water. The trout or other fish that are lurking in the water below will perceive the bottom of the fly as it plops onto the surface resistance, and they’ll interpret it as an insect that accidentally flew down too close to the water and fell in. For a hungry trout, this is like winning a bit of a lottery prize! For them it’s free and easy eats that they don’t have to leap out of the water to nab.
Most sports fishing relies heavily upon using bait or lures to persuade fish to bite, and this is the case also with the reach cast. Scam your fish with a beautiful or delicately-engineered fly lure and we guarantee you’ll have no complaints!
The best season for reach cast fishing coincides with that of fly fishing itself — typically stretching from April 1st to mid-to-late October here in the United States. However, the season varies by location, and fly fishing can be done year-round in temperate regions, such as in areas nearer the equator. The main condition necessitating the reach cast technique is to be fly fishing in moving water — so, if it’s a river that freezes in the winter months, that would definitely keep you from doing it.
The best fly rods for reach casting are typically about six feet long, and depend somewhat on the size of fish you’re trying to scam onto your hook, as well as the wind and water conditions. Since the reach cast is typically used more with freshwater fish like trout, you’d use a rod with a line size #000 to #0 in most cases. Check out the selection of fly fishing gear at your nearest Bass Pro Shops or Cabela’s for more detailed information and advice for a specific choice of rods.
Give the reach cast technique a try and see if it helps you to kick your fly fishing game up a notch! The method really can help you increase the subtlety of your casting, making your fly look more naturalistic and appealing to the skeptical fish lurking under the water’s surface. It will take a little bit of practice and a deft hand to accomplish it properly, but once you do you will more skillfully scam the fish out of their doubtful mode and into snapping up the lure without pausing!
