Our next day in Kauai John, Aaron, and I woke up early and cruised the coast. We decided to go south and ended up stumbling across a beach where dozens of sea turtles were nesting. It was real cool and the first time I have ever seen a sea turtle. After that we off roaded to another beach where we climbed black rock and had a great photo shoot. Then we went southward and cruised down a magnificent canyon. We then grabbed a few drinks and watched the sunset before a dip in the pool and went to the ______ restaurant where we met Katie the bartender who told us about some great things to do. We scheduled a tour with the Wayaluka River Guides and went to bed.
The next day we got up at 6:30 for our river tour. Luckily it was only John, Aaron and I on the tour so we could move faster and see more stuff. Our guide was a girl named Annie who originally lived in St. Louis Missouri and after a vacation to Hawaii she packed up her things and moved there about a year ago. After a nice kayak down the Wakalua river we stopped at a rope swing to do some jumps and then hiked through shrubs to a beautiful waterfall and kayaked back. The trip was well worth it and somewhere along the way Annie offered us jobs on the river as guides and became very persistent on wanting us as guides. It seemed like the perfect job so I got her information and told her I would give her a call after I finish in Cambodia. After we got back to shore we ate at a great locals place (The Pono Market). After lunch Aaron bought a Ukelele and we decided we were not yet tired from our journey so we drove up the coast and hiked the Napali trail for 4 miles. Probably the most beautiful hike I have ever done. We got back snorkeled for awhile and watched the sunset on the beach.
We woke up on Kauai, packed up our things, and headed to the airport. After 2 short flights and a little confusion in Honolulu we were in Maui!! At the airport we picked up our jeep, went to a restaurant called Da Kitchen for our overwhelmingly large lunch and waited near the airport until 2pm when Davids flight arrived. Once we got Dave we drove up the coast north of Lahina where we stayed at the Ashton Papakia. This was more like a retirement home but we made the best of it. We checked out the town which was more touristy than Kauai and had some dinner where we soom realized we had to be up at 230am for our 30 mile bike ride down the volcano. It took us a hour to drive up the volcano to about 10,000 feet where we watched the most gorgeous sunrise. Then started biking down the trail. Julio and Tom were our guides and the 30 mile cruise down the volcano was more like a roller coaster ride than anything else. It was a great time and I am glad we did it. We got back worked out, did some snorkeling at Honolua Bay and met some more friends on the beach to watch the sunset. I think this might have been the first day of my life where i actually got to watch both a beautiful sunrise and sunset.
Today we did more snorkeling at a better spot north of Honolua Bay and the took a road trip north around the coast on loosely paved roads on the side of the northern pacific.
Today is Aaron and Davids last day so we went down to Hana and went to Twin Falls before are Luau (Feist at LeLe) at 6pm. We saw 4 beautful waterfalls and did some jumps off of 2 of them. Then went to the great Luau where we ate and watched dances from Simoa, Hawaii, New Zealand, and Tahiti. We met some girls from Canada and went out with them after for a fun night!
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