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April 24, 2014
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 Peggy secured our camping gear from a gentleman in Kihea with a side business called Camp Maui. He had moved here from Turlock, CA, in 2008 to work as a chef. Anyway, for $50, we rented a tent, queen-size air mattress, some light-weight sleeping sacks, and a plastic ziplock with various sundries (i.e. small flashlight, insect repellant, ponchos, a deck of cards, etc). So, on a bluff next to the ocean, we set up camp, and watched the waning light until the many stars appeared intermittently through openings in the rolling fog banks.We woke up and crawled out from our tent to watch the sunrise, had breakfast, packed up the camping gear, and drove to the visitor center to park and begin our 2.5 mile hike up the Ohe'o Gulch through an amazing bamboo forest to Waimoku Falls. Then it was back in our rental car to finish our narrow and sometimes precarious drive along the road around east Maui. Only by driving the road can you see the contrast between the lush, rain-fed jungles and waterfalls along the northern road to Hana… and the dry, windswept back of Haleakala with water-scoured gulches and expansive, wind-ravaged views of the ocean along the southern road. Or to further quote from a guidebook, "…to pass from Eden-like lushness to the land of sun and wind." |
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