Road to Hana!

We all laughed pretty hard when we saw this picture.  Two reasons: first, the look on Aubrie's face; second, we had been debating earlier in the car how/where pineapples grew.

First stop was the Twin Falls.

There was a little bamboo forest on the path to the Twin Falls.

"We are free!"

Digging your hat Brad!

The stop for Twin Falls had a little Farmstand that sold fresh fruit.

The Road to Hana has so many interesting stops along the way!

Every where you look there's something beautiful to see.

See?  Look at these two, just beautiful!

OK, seriously; look at how gorgeous that is!

Stopping at the side of the road just to gaze for a while...

Here is a small grove of rainbow eucalyptus trees.  The guy who rappelled with us who authored a travel book said the bark shifts colors over night.  They look different each day.

It felt other-worldly standing next to them.

These trees are as smooth as a baby's bottom.

We turned off the main road to explore a little side-road and discovered this little bay.

It turned out to be one of the best picture-spots on the Road to Hana.

This was at Cocunut Glen's; some wild and crazy hippy dude who opened an ice-cream shop on the Road to Hana.  His bio was posted in the shop.  Pretty wild...
"Coconut" was our "Safe Word" on the Road to Hana.  If somebody said "Coconut", everyone had to be quite and Dad had to slow down while driving.

He sold some great-tasting ice-cream!

There's Aubrie in her signature pose down by a cool waterfall we found along the way.

We explored the lava tubes.

It was sort of spooky going into them...

Here's Aubrie explaining to Brad the origin of the tubes...

A welcome sight after being down in the tubes for 30 minutes.

Believe it or not this garden is a maze.  See Aubrie in the middle of the pic trying to find her way?  I raced ahead to catch up with Katie.  2 minutes later is started to absolutely pour rain.  Brad and Aubrie, still in the maze, paid the price and got soaked.

OK, you tell me; am I seeing things or not?  Center of the pic:  doesn't that look like the profile of a guy where the waves are crashing?

This is a scene on the "other side" of the Road to Hana; after you get through the frightening part where the roads are skinny and on the cliffs.  There was a young couple walking down to the beach who ruined my otherwise great "nature shot".  See them in the lower left?  Oh well, pictures with people in them are better anyway I guess...

This is cool!  See the archway out there in the distance?

It's a little easier to see in this picture; right above Brad's head and off in the distance.

We parked the car on the way back and I got out the tripod for this one.  Yes, I HDR'd it...  You can see 3 islands in this pic.  Maui, where I'm standing, (and also the area to the right - that's a part of Maui too).  Lanai is straight ahead, under where the sun is setting (maybe just a little to the right).  And Kahoolawe is the larger piece of land on the left.  That little guy in front of Kahoolawe is Molokini where there is some great snorkeling to do.

 

 

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