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Mamalahoa Trail
The Mamalahoa Trail is over 50km long.
It goes from Kona to Puako.
We were far to lazy for that so we only visited the part next to the mall that had petroglyphs.
And rock shelters.
They don’t look like they would provide much shelter.
Ancient Hawaiians had proportions that make Barbie look realistic.
Or maybe not so ancient Hawaiians.
Some of the petroglyphs might date back to the 1400s.
But a lot are obviously Colonial era.
There were definitely a lot of them.
Mostly circles and people.
We could of course read all of them.
This guy is doing deadlifts. That’s how he got such a wide chest.
This guy is very bad at juggling.
This guy is falling off a bicycle.
These are very skinny acrobats.
That’s as far down the trail as we got.
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Hawaii Helicopter Ride
We had to get up very early.
We got in the helicopter as the sun was rising.
And it took off.
And we flew high over the ground.
Above the clouds
Which really interfered with the scenicness.
Fortunately the clouds started to clear.
And then we could see the mini-volcanos.
And the big ones.
And the bigger ones.
And the biggest one of all.
Then we went over to the active one.
Which had molten lava inside.
It was splooping.
Further down the mountain it was flowing
Slowly flowing
And cooling and crusting.
There were small islands that the volcano hadn’t set on fire.
This was a bigger one.
You can see where the road used to be.
At the edge there were a lot of dead trees.
Then we were back over the green part of the island.
The clouds were all gone.
Then we went to the coast.
And saw some whales.
And some waterfalls.
Very steep waterfalls.
These ones were more inland.
They were also steep.
