Day 8: NTBG

In the morning, Dr. Burney showed us around and gave us a tour of the National Tropical Botanical Gardens. He told us about all of the invasive species and plants that are pretty much taking over the island and how the native plants and species are going extinct or endangered. He showed us around the Mcbride and Allerton areas of the gardens and he showed us the areas where movies have been made like Jurassic Park. After the tour, we went and saw Spouting Horn in Poipu and went to the NTBG gift shop. Then we went to lunch but by this time is was already 2pm so we didn’t take a tour of the cave Makauwahi Cave. We ended up going out to an open field and testing a UAV. Overall, it was a pretty good first day in Kauai.