Hello again, been busy but wanted to be sure to share this.
Decided last minute to take a hike today as the other 2 were busy so L, G and I went to Manoa Falls.
Hike starts out entering the lush tropical rain forest on a pretty mellow trail. The trees are huge and striking.
As the trail starts to thin and become a little more challenging, this is the first posted sign ... not actually what you want to see, especially when rain is predicted ALL THE TIME up here in the mountains above Honolulu. But what the heck ...
Decided to try out my five-finger-shoes. Good choice. I highly recommend these to anyone. The trail was muddy and slippery and I had no problems. They get muddy, just rinse 'em and keep going. I had no trouble keeping my footing and found that the rocks didn't bother me at all. Check 'em out.
Had to stop G and take a pic of this. This a 'branch' that fell off the larger that is visible in the background. The 'branch' was attached at about 20 ft from the ground and the entire thing broke and fell across the trail. Way amazing.
L after successfully crossing one of the many muc pits. I was quite impressed with her balance and agility today ... as well as her lack of complaining.
Here we are at the top getting ready for photos. Again with the no complaining, don't know who switched my wife with the alien look-alike, but I wanna thank 'em.
The falls ... about 160ft cascading falls ... well worth the trip. It was about 1.25 miles one-way and took about 1.5 hours all together.
On the way down, it finally started raining, but thankfully it didn't last long. G loved the whole thing "especially the mud". She was almost covered from the waist down by the time we finished.
The old growth forest was amazing. See G for referenece. It was so cool ... most of it is just raw and untouched. Beautiful!
Several areas of thick bamboo growth, too cool.
