A near death experience, a volcano and a hike above the clouds *Warning:explicit material*
December 18th 2008 Sunday morning our dear friend Pat offered to take Joe, Alberto and I on a lovely hour long hike thru a jungle in Waimea Valley to a waterfall. It involved climbing, slipping, wading chest deep thru a stream and several bruises but all together it was this amazingly spectacular hike to a 1,450 foot waterfall. I fell behind a little but waded thru the stream and several little waterfalls to see P
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