October 25, 2007

• Wednesday, October 23

  We took the day to go to Waimea canyon today which was good because my feet were all chewed up from my hike the day before and I'm very, very sunburned (lousy spray on sunscreen).  You can read more about Waimea canyon  here.  It's kind of a long ride over there and a lot of driving from cool-thing-to-see to cool-thing-to-see but the views are spectacular.  This is a viewpoint from before we even got into the canyon and the views kept getting beter:

  

  

   

  

  

  

  The canyon is in a really dry part of the island but the interior of the canyon has a lot of water flowing through it so it's pretty lush.  And the canyon is enormous:

  

  

  

  

   

  

  

  There are chickens EVERYWHERE in the Waimea Canyon.  Most likely because the tourists keep feeding them.  Yes I fed the chickens.  I couldn't help it.

  

   

  

  At the top you can look down onto the Napali coast.  We're almost a mile above the ocean at this point.  Watch that last step!

  

  

  

  

  

   

  

   

  

  We headed down the mountain after that and headed back for the hotel.  We had some lunch and headed for the beach.  There was a beautiful sunset and then we headed back for dinner.

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