Our last full day on Maui. Since we had such a great time exploring the road to the north of us, we decided to do the road to Hana. The hotel set us up with a GPS Gypsy Guide system for $40 to be our guide for the day. This was, for us, our best day on Maui. It was our best excursion too.
First we drove to the little teeny town of Paia which is where Mama's Fish House is and is also close to mile marker 1 which is where the road to Hana officially begins. We went to Charlie's for breakfast which is Willie Nelson's restaurant. We were told he lives near there and goes in for breakfast often. We were really hoping to run in to Willie Nelson but he wasn't there that morning. We did get our first taste of Macadamia Nut Pancakes which everyone should try at least once while in Hawaii. Though, by day 7, we were getting very weary of macadamia nuts which seem to show up in just about everything over there. Noelle got her new favorite meal in the whole wide world: LocoMoco!! And, we both enjoyed what will now be known as the worst coffee we'd ever had ever ever.
Noelle pretending to enjoy her coffee-water in case Willie Nelson walked in
After that, we headed off with our Gypsy Guide talking to us about all kinds of interesting things towards our first stop on the road to Hana. This was also our first encounter with a waterfall:
And a cool bambo forest:
Then we stopped at this aritorium and found these completely cool trees called Rainbow Eucalyptus:
Most of the 57 some odd one-lane bridges on the road to Hana go over waterfalls:
One of the coolest stops on the Road to Hana was the black sand beach stop:
With the cool cave:
and the other cool cave with the legend:
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| So its kinda dark but all that blackness behind us is 'lake' |
And this is as we walk the path from the cave/lake back to the car:
And about 45 minutes beyond Hana, there are the 7 Sacred Pools:
From there, we had to race back to Paia for our 6:30 dinner reservations at Mama's Fish House where we had another incredible meal:
Oh yeah, and a few more tropical drinks.
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