Aloha from Maui Day 3 - Road to Hana

The third day we drove the road to Hana. By the time we were done which was over 8 hours later we wish we wouldn't have. Sure we saw beautiful things but to make a long story short it took us with our stops to drive a very curvy 46 mile road over 5 hours and 2 1/2 hours back with no stops. It is as they say "it is without question the most famous and desired drive in all Hawaii, the crown jewel of driving". I'm not so sure about that. If you get the least bit car sick DON'T take it. But we did drive it and I have pictures to share.

One of the highlights of the drive was getting our pictures taken with the parrots. I mean how often can you do that. Here's me...

Emily sure is cute with the birds.

Michael got to hold them like a strong man.

One of the birds trying to eat Michael's hands. He wasn't to thrilled about that.

Dad didn't want his picture taken by himself so we did it together.

Down the road to Hana we go. You can't tell very well but the bark on these trees is colorful. These are Eucalyptic trees.

This is the Garden of Eden Hawaiin style. It's a self owned preserve for different varieties of plants and trees.

It's for sale for $8,000.000 if anyone is interested.

I've seen bananas growing on trees we went to the Bahamas but I don't remember that long tail on them.

Pretty palm trees.

This is one of the few waterfalls we saw. The waterfall I wanted to see the most and swim in the pool under it along with some others the locals closed the road to where tourist couldn't see them. That was a huge disappointment for me.

One of the views along the road to Hana. The church in this small village is made out of coral. A miracle from God. The villagers wanted to build a church but they didn't have the materials to build it and so they prayed for help.  A huge storm came and washed on their shores a bunch of coral. The natives used the coral to build the church and when they were done another storm came and washed all the coral they didn't use back out to sea.

This is as far as we went. To the Black Sand beach before Hana. It was sooo nice to get out and just explore and sit for awhile instead of driving.

Exploring a lava cave.

Black Sand Beach

Michael and Emily getting doused with a wave.

A rainbow was a treat to see on the way back.

Whew, we were going to drive to the crater on Sunday after church but after driving the Road to Hana none of us wanted to drive anywhere.