Palm Trees and Sunshine: Life in Hawaii: Manoa Falls

Thursday, Jon got out of work early so we knew we had to do something fun and adventurous to make it worth it. We still haven't seen a Hawaiian waterfall, so we did some Googling and found Manoa Falls, which is just about a 10 minute drive from our apartment.

It is near the University of Hawaii campus, and it's obviously a hike into the mountains. We were surprised to find that it cost 5 bucks to park, but it's Hawaii and tourism is their thing so whatever. It's a 1 1/2 mile hike through bamboo forests, rainforests, and the base of the Ko'oaus Mountains, and at the end is an amazing 150 ft waterfall. We were super smart and wore our water shoes since most of the trail was muddy and watery. I kept commenting every 5 minutes that I was happy I wasn't ruining my good tennis shoes. Unfortunately, we weren't smart because we didn't have any bug spray and I'm paying for that now with tons of mosquito bites.

Hiking the trail was so much fun. We saw so many cool nature-y things. The hike was so worth it because the waterfall was unbelievable. It was kind of crazy though because we found out from the people that were also there that they were from Sandusky, OH too. Jon was just like, "I can never escape Ohio!" The guy was dumb though because he crossed the barriers and actually GOT IN the pool at the base of the waterfall. Like how freaking dumb? He actually could have gotten cited for doing that. But anyway, we got some awesome pictures!

Stream at the beginning of the trail.