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Published: March 2nd 2010
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Beach Cave
This was a cave in the Lava cliffs formed by the ocean at Waianapanapa. The next day as we were cooking breakfast, Alison (our tent neighbor who we had met the night before) came over to us and offered us a ride to our next destination because they were interested in going there too. As we were packing I struck up a conversation with two guys that I recognized from seeing them at the Red Sand Beach in Hana. Their names were Scott and Sandro and they were from Canada.
We made the drive further along the eastern side of the island with Alison and steve stopping only to buy a papaya at a local fruit stand and to pick mangoes growing by the side of the road. We pulled into the campsite at Kipahulu at like 10:00 am with the whole day before us. Compared to Waianapanapa this campsite wasn't anything very special; however, we were pointed to a primo site right on the edge of a sea cliff by a fellow camper that reminded Austin of Gene Hackman which could only be gotten to by foot and he had a car.
The rest of the day was spent exploring the tide pools and pebble beach below our campsite, sunbathing,
Beach Ring
This one's for you B. and hiking up to Waimoku falls. Kipahulu was also the site of the famous 7 Sacred Pools which unfortunately were completely dry when we saw them. However, because it was dry we were able to sit on top of what would have been a waterfall and hike back in an incredibly big river bed to a semi secret set of falls. We continued on to get to the 600ft Waimoku falls where Austin and I took little showers underneath the huge stream of water and just beat the rush of tourists that came after us.
As we returned to the park from the hike, we came across Scott and Sandro sitting in their car in the parking lot, getting ready to sleep in their car as they had been doing for the past 3 nights. We invited them up to hang out at our campsite and they ended up offering us a ride to their favorite beach the next day the rest of the way around the island in Makena. We cooked dinner after they had returned to the parking lot. We had ramen and mashed potatoes with a can of Vienna Sausages that Austin found near the
Dry Falls A
Austin sitting atop a waterfall without watter that should have been filling the seven pools. porta-potties.
The next day we drove with them across the barren southern portion of the island to Little Beach. Little Beach was the nude sister beach to Big Beach. We were really bummed that we didn't get to go there on a Sunday because apparently that was when all the life of the beach came out and there were things like a fire dance. Austin and I set up camp right on the beach for the night. In the morning pretty much my first sight was that of a whale breaching across the sea near the Molokini crater. It was an amazing thing to wake up to. We had hoped to see dolphins but no such luck. Scott and Sandro came back to the beach in the morning to pick us up and dropped us off right at Chris's doorstep. That night we feasted on traditional Luau foods that Chris prepared including ribs and Kalua pork (the box top of which we used to make our "HANA" sign) and we were off to the airport and O'ahu the next day.
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Lori
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Eric, I am SO in love with the pictures you are taking! This is amazing to see. Thanks for keeping this blog!!! xoxo