After nine days of doing things on my own schedule, I joined forces with another traveler and practiced patience and flexibility! I also got all the benefits of traveling with another, such as pictures(!!!!!), conversation, and other perspectives.
The deal was: I join her on a hike, and she joins me paddle boarding! And in one whirlwind of the day, we got it all in :)
The first two miles of the kalalau trail went by quickly and then we got to the first river crossing where the waterfall trail breaks off from the K trail that I had already done.
These two miles were interesting. Not nearly as much climbing and descending, but much more roots and trees to climb over and around and some amazing rock hopping over river crossings. We probably passed ten little or middle sized waterfalls as well as a handful of pools.
The final waterfall was so huge-much bigger than I expected with a huge pool at the bottom. We took a ton of pictures and some people got in and swam under the falls.
We were in a bit of a hurry and had spent a lot of time at the beach (where people had stacked hundreds of cairns), plus, the weather was overcast so we skipped it.
If I was to come back, I would take the whole (sunny) day and walk the trail nice and slow stopping at all the pools.
We then got an amazing hotdog (anthony bourdain recommended) with pineapple relish.
Finally we got out in the water to play on the board. They gave us a very nice board-for paddle boarding and surfing-a little difficult for yoga. The foot grippers in the front did not go far enough out for most poses and although wide, it was shorter than a pb that one would want for yoga.
The waves were also crazy and along with wind blowing a storm in, paddling was a bit crazy.
This last day was wonderful and a bit stressful, but I got on my plane and ended my trip happily.
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