To see the rest of our
Hawaii trip to this point, click here.
I haven't really mentioned this, but Eamon had insane jet lag. He woke up about 5 AM for most of the trip. Ray is better at mornings than I am, so he generally got up with the kid and went and made nice in the still-closed buffet to get coffee and food. In return, I generally took the morning nap shift in the cabin so he got to hang out with his family. This arrangement, however, means that there are pictures like this, for which I have no explanation:
Anyway...
Steve had a fantastic photo tour in Maui, and now I was really interested in seeing some waterfalls, so after Eamon's nap, Ray let me plan a brutalizing 8-mile day to walk from the boat, into Hilo, and up to
Rainbow Falls park. He does love me. Fortunately, I'm not really that crazy, and before we left the dock I spent some time negotiating with the various bus drivers. Unfortunately, none of them could get us there (as with much on this trip, we'd missed our bus, literally, due to Eamon's nap).
Fortunately, the taxi driver I had started off with saw us start walking away and apparently realized that nobody else was coming off the boat anytime soon, so he negotiated with me for a cheap ride to town - we figured we could handle the short walk up from there and 4 miles DOWN, no problem. (For the record, I think Ray still considers himself to have incredibly bad luck with taxis- I negotiated, therefore it's my good luck/persistence?). Anyway, we got a ride to downtown and then hiked up to
this place:
Note the ship, that white blob on the water... it's about 3 miles by line of flight...
