The train ride at Lihue at Kauai Plantation Railway gives a peek into the sugar mill history of Kauai. Once, diesel-powered narrow gauge rail lines moved tons of sugar cane from the fields all over the island to mills where the can would be processed into sugar. Now, only remnants of the rail lines can be seen as pedestrian bridges over streams and at the Kauai Plantation Railway, where you can ride in a reproduction of King Kalakaua's personal railway car around a small looping track that takes riders past small plots of fruits and vegetables grown on the current plantation and used in the historic adjacent Gaylord's restaurant. The location is the site of Gaylord Wilcox's home when he operated Grove Farm Plantation, a 23,000 acre sugar plantation.
Grove Farm is also worthy of the donated $20/person tour--operated by a non-profit that is maintaining the historic home and gardens off Nawiliwili Road. In a few more days we will be there, and I'll tell you all about it then!
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