Napali Coast hike

This day was one of my favorites on Kauai. We got up early and went for a hike along the Napali Coast. The trail is sometimes treacherous because it is slippery when wet. Thankfully, it hadn't rained in a couple days before we went there, so there wasn't too much water on the path.

We are excited to get started! 

 If you don't remember the pictures from the helicopter ride, the next two pictures are the arial view of the hike we did.

This is the beach we started at

This is the view of the whole thing. We started at the beach on the left and hiked along the coast through the jungle, then turned left and went up into the canyon to the waterfall (its kinda small in the picture, but if you look closely, there is a small white line half way up the ridge)

Now we begin the hike. Pretty view of the beach

Jungle! 

Starting to climb

So pretty!! 

Seriously felt like we were in some far away island where there are giant gorillas or something

Two miles in we stopped briefly at the beach

Now we turned inland and are headed to the waterfall. The path was not always really clear. 

We did LOTS  of traversing across the stream. 

You had to pick your way carefully. 

Jer did a great job :) 

Getting a glimpse! Almost there! 

So many waterfalls everywhere on this island! 

Made it! 

Pretty tall waterfall

Took some pictures of the HUGE bamboo on the way back

We really tried not to get super muddy, but on the way back, a lot more people had come along the path and had mucked it up. 

Washing off in the stream before going back along the coast

Pretty views!! 

We saw a bunch of whales - some spouting and others breaching. Way cool! 

The sun came out and it made the water look sooooo blue! 

So this is the end of the entries from Hawaii. Hopefully more adventures to come soon!