…”Der frühe Vogel fängt den Wurm”, i woke up early enough to escape from the upcoming tourist terrorism in this beautiful area. While opening my zipper of my tent i said “aloha” to my new mate who lives on my tent. I really enjoyed my breakfast in the silent park one of the benches and got in contact with Paul and Lulu. They are from Canada, also camping here and traveling around Maui by bike. As the way around after Kipahulu is described as dangerous and only 4WD cars should drive this, they asked me to check the situation of the road, if it’s possible to drive there by bike.
I got my pictures without anybody in the crystal clear water in the caves. Due to my wounds i decided not to go swimming and may get Leptospirosis, a bacterial infection which you can get here in river pools and creeks. Short stop in the Hasegawa store to buy drinks and ice before starting the travel almost around the island. This side of Maui has more beauty to discover, nicer and emptier beaches. First stop was Kipahulu, with the ‘Ohe’o Gulch pools (aka seven sacred pooles) and the beautiful Waimoku Falls. A very nice trail along the pools, passing Banyon Trees and a bamboo forest. Lots of signs warned for flash flooding and with articles where people died because they didn’t got out early enough as the rain started. This was one of the highest and beautiful waterfalls. The spray of the wasterfall cooled the air down and lot of people sat around and enjoyed the cool and wet air.
Somehow i missed the way to the church and cemetery with Charles Lindbergh grave, but i will find this for sure on my way back. A few miles behind Kipahulu the road turned in to bad condition, mixed of paved and gravel, while driving felt more like riding a horse. But the condition was better then expected and i headed on to see where to road ends, gets better and how nature looks like to give a good feedback to Paul and Lulu. I made a fake picture of an real 4WD road to shock them and make a joke.
On the way back i found the road to the church and visited the grave of Charles Lindbergh. This was one of the beautifulest cemetery i saw, no wonder why he stayed his last days here in this city. Finally it was dinner time again and i stopped at an Thai-Food trunk where i got some delicious Pathai Noodles with Ahi (Tuna).
Back at the campground i met Paul and Lulu again and while drinking some beers we discussed if the road will be drivable by bike, or more important, if they will made it because the other is the sunny and dry side and my possible burn them down. After some more beers with Paul and a very nice conversation, we decided to go to bed. It was about 8pm, but here are no lights, so you will get tired as soon as the sun went down…(2014/12/21)