Our first hike on the Big Island was into the Waipi'o Valley! This valley, also known as the Valley of the Kings is towards the northern end of Hawaii and we drove through ranch country to get there. The drive was beautiful if frustrating .... Hawaiians love their slow speed limits apparently. :)
In preparation for the trip, Wifey packed a 'sack lunch', plenty of water, our camera gear, and some water shoes.
Upon arrival at the lookout ... Russ saved the day with his parallel parking skills. Kee would have just had to turn around and go home.
The lookout includes facilities .... and the folks managing it much be quite wealthy .... this is COVID gold:
Before we began our hike, we walked over and snapped this view of where we would soon lunch:
The hike down begins on a paved-ish road and then reaches a fork.
At the fork you turn right to reach the black sand beach at the mouth of the valley and turn left to reach a dead end. We turned left. But we were rewarded for this minor error with a stunning view of the waterfall at the end of the valley opposite of the beach!
We also saw some wild horses in the interior part of the valley.
Unphoto-ed - we reached a dead end, consulted our map, turned around and eventually found the beach!
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| It's blurry, but we're in this. |
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