The Road to Hana

No blog updates is because we're on Hawaiian time; don't worry, be happy, slow down, and we're on vacation!

We drove the 55 mile Road to Hana, a cliff-side road filled with twists, turns, curves and one lane bridges. This road leads to the lush green rain forest of Maui's windward side or the eastern shore. We saw beautiful scenery and made many stops at outlooks to see the ocean view, peninsulas and waterfalls. Our favorite stop was Waianapenapa State Park where we stopped to eat our lunch. This is home to one of Maui's only volcanic-sand beach, also called black sand. There were caves and ocean blowholes. A beautiful landscape of black sand, green beach vines and azure water. Several times a year the tide pools turn red due to the arrival of small shrimp. There were several burial sites as well. We also passed countless fruit and flower stands. We turned around due to the road changing to dirt, and only allowing four wheel drive vehicles. At the Seven Sacred Pools, a stream that cascades from one pool to the next down to the sea we headed back. The trip back was not very pleasant for me as I turned the color of Shrek due to the twists and turns, almost like riding an amusement park ride!