The Road to Hana

Can you say Jurassic Park?

Sunday comes and we go to Hana. We leave at around 7:30am, thinking that will give us plenty of time to get up there...we thought a three hour tour.
Until we saw the roads going around the North side of the island. Luckily we only had to pass a few cars on the way, it was crazy! But we arrived in Hana about 1:30pm, 5 hours later. We took the hike at the Seven Sacred Pools to see the waterfalls & stuff. This one is called Wailea Falls.
Another stop along the way across a bridge, talk about green!
Then it was through the bamboo forest, never seen anything like it in my life. Bamboo 30 feet high, and THICK! Too bad we forgot our glasses, got kinda dark with the 'ol sunglasses on.

Our final destination, Waimouku Falls, 400 ft drop down a sheer cliff. It was breathtaking. Dave got within about 10 ft of it, hoping a rock didn't come crashing over the edge and nail him on the forehead.

We got back to the car about 5:30 pm thinking that we didn't want to take the windy road back to Kahilui, so we took the south road which had just reopened. Talk about rural, most of the road was dirt, just as windy, and it was dark. Poor little rental car, the shocks had to be tired. Then we finally hit the "highway", a two lane road about 30' wide. We thought we were home free, until the cows showed up, who also use the "highway" as their trail.
Back to the hotel by 10:30pm...we decided that one trip to Hana is enough in a lifetime.