Day 38: July 26, 2013

Hiking post! Maj and I didn't do any new beaches this week but we did two new waterfall hikes. On Wednesday, we hiked to Manoa Falls and it was an easy, but beautiful hike. This is kept up by the state, I believe, so you have to pay to park unless you park in a neighborhood close by (but only $3 for military; $5 civilian). It is a little over an hour total hiking time and definitely a kid friendly hike. There are some really cool picture spots! 

This is a waterfall that you aren't allowed to swim in because there was a landslide in 2002 so just for looking!!

Today (Friday), we hiked the Maunawilli Falls Trail. This was listed as a moderately easy trail, but it was long and there were a lot of stairs and slick rocks while crossing a stream. But I loved it! Maj and I definitely should have started earlier though; we were very hungry coming back! This trail was recommended to us by our waitress at Yardhouse (who also highly recommended Stairway to Heaven)! It is located on the green side of the island, near Kailua in a neighborhood (park on Lola Rd). It took us a little over 2 hours total hiking time, but we stopped at the falls for a bit to watch people jump. There's a large rock that lots of people were jumping off and it seemed very safe but I don't recommend jumping off the very high rock to the left. A few people were doing it and one woman slipped. She was fine, but it was really dangerous!  

This little guy scared me pretty bad when he climbed on my shoe!