Hana Trip

Beautiful Wainapanapa

Wanted to post a couple pics from the latest Hana trip over the weekend. It was a great time, though we ran into a bunch of road blocks. I think we set our expectations a little too high for this one.

We left at 10:30pm on Friday night, drove out to Wainapanapa (Hana side), and hiked out on the lava cliffs to a fishing site that Bradley likes. I've been there before, but never hiked it at night. Yikes! After getting just a teeeeny bit lost, we got back on track and made it to camp to set up for the night.

Campsite

My bed

Bradley's bed

I was a little tired, so I took a breather in my bed - aka my beach chair - for a bit while Bradley got the poles set up, and fished for bait.

Bradley reeling in and checking bait @ the top pole.

This went on for a few hours until sunrise, and then I joined in and fished a bit too - caught a couple, but nothing edible, and not good bait. Really pretty fish though! The excitement came around 9am....I was getting ready to put a hook on my pole, Bradley was up top putting new tako (octopus) bait on one of the big poles, when the other big pole next to me started "screaming". That's essentially the noise you hear when something big is on the line, and is swimming for its life. The pole bell started clanging, and the line started whizzing out like crazy. Bradley yelled at me to hold the pole down before the fish pulled it over the cliff, so I managed to keep it steady until he could get over to me, and then he started to reel it in. It was REALLY exciting. Turns out that it wasn't an Ulua or an Umilu, but rather a 7 foot long tiger shark. !!!!

Luckily it wasn't totally hooked, and after some fighting, it managed to let go of the hook. Otherwise, Bradley would have had to cut the line eventually, and lost everything, "hook, line, and sinker". (Now you know where that phrase comes from).


Anyway, that got the heart pumping big time. We fished for a few more hours, and then packed up and hiked back to the car to go set up camp at Kipahulu, where everyone else was going to meet us. We planned to go night diving Saturday for lobster, but we were way too tired. We BBQ-d some dogs, and enjoyed hanging with everyone for a while, and then crashed. Unfortunately, I managed to find the one spot in my tent with a big ole root right in the middle of my back - no sleeping for me!!

Twilight at Kipahulu

Next day we packed up the tents and hiked to the pools, but they were closed due to flash flood warning. Lame! So we drove up to Himoa beach, hoping for some snorkeling, but no such luck. The water was just too rough. Bradley and I stopped a couple more places looking for good snorkeling/diving, but it was too rough and murky. So we headed back home, stopping along the way to pick guavas and avocados.

We were foiled in most of our big plans for the weekend, but it was still an awesome weekend. You can't beat the beauty of Hana.

Needless to say, we hit the hay pretty early that night...

Pictures below:

The view from camp...you don't want to fall in.

Below: Tobbies, special Ninja Turtle shoes.

Tako (octopus) that Bradley caught in Kihei.

More Tako.

It rains without warning, and you run for cover.

But it's still beautiful!