Friday, December 12, 2008

September 5th - Part 2

The final major stop was Pipiwai Trail that takes you to the bamboo garden and the acclaimed Waimuke 400 ft waterfall. They claim it is a 4 hr hike (2 mile each way) because it is severe up or down hill over rocks/roots. Adam and I did it much faster...about 3 hrs round trip. We move pretty fast when we are on a mission...and it started pouring rain on our return and I wanted to get out of there before that bamboo decided to fall on my head!

here is what I call the 'kiddie ride' as we thought it was cool until we saw the real deal






The terrain to get the waterfall was not too bad...mostly dirt trails with lots of roots and rocks a lot of which are in place to prevent the entire place from being a mudslide. We wore our running shoes for this one so relax..sigh! Along the way you go through the bamboo gardens which were super cool. Here are some pics



Ok, so here's the main event. The 400 ft water fall Waimuke. It was TOTALLY worth the hike!!!






It is required at all tourist attractions, per the locals, that you do the 'shaka' hand motion...so i HAD to do a 'double shaka' when we FINALLY made it to the waterfall. And here is Adam AGAIN breaking the law.




After the waterfall hike we hiked a short 15 min to the 7 pools, fully known as Ohe'o Gulch Seven Pools. This was cool but nothing compared to the waterfall so we kind of rushed through it. It's basically a waterfall that collects in 7 separate areas that don't get hit by waves and thus they are pools that people swim in. We were soaked from walking an hour back from the waterfall in the pouring down rain that we were not really up for a swim.






We hauled-ass on the way home only stopping once for a slight motion-sick moment (no puking!) and bathroom break so that we could make it to our dinner reservations. Hana is so big now and slightly commercialized that you can't make it out in less than 3 hrs so we had to call and cancel. We ended up eating dinner Longhi's again because neither of us wanted to be in the car to drive some where else. It was ok. Here are some pics from the way out...


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