10/02/19

Wednesday

Downhill bike ride. Waimea Canyon with Outfitters Kauai. I figured this would be a great way to see the canyon and have some fun at the same time. Two birds one stone kind of thing. My tour got switched from 230 to 6am. Ugh. Who wants to ride bikes at the butt crack of dawn? Well I guess Oregon time is 9am lol. I am going to have to do some adjusting when I get back.

It’s raining. Lol but it’s 78 degrees. It will be like taking a shower 😂.

Drove down there in the dark. So glad I have Maps and GPS. I’m not sure how I would function without it. I’d be lost lol.

Kevin and Mattias were our guides. Very knowledgeable about the canyon and the hawaiian culture. It’s amazing that Hawai’i became a State just sixty years ago and how much their culture suffered back then. Times have changed for the better.

We could see the Forbidden Isle on one of our stops down the hill. For years no one was allowed on that island until just recently. They let you come over, for a few hours, supervised and a large fee. The Ni’ihau live on that island and the Robinsons own it. It’s estimated around 160 people total. I’m surprised Krystal didn’t make everyone watch that on documentary night before Hawaii lol. Very interesting but I’ll watch Moana and wait to see The Rock as King Kamehameha 😁

We stopped at a view point on the way up before we started riding. We all had to demonstrate that we could ride a bicycle. Lol. Our bikes were beach cruisers. One speed with disc brakes and a giant seat. Some of the people that signed up were a little iffy 😂. One girl had to ride around four times because she almost crashed lol.

We got geared up with helmets and took off down the mountain. It was fun. We had to ride single file and weren’t allowed to pass anyone. I almost ran into the guy in front of me a bunch of times. He kept riding his brakes lol. The van with the bike trailer followed us and radio’d ahead if we needed to pull over to allow cars to pass.

We made a stop at a viewpoint and found some wild guava. I ate some and I liked it. It was a little weird. You eat the whole thing.

The view was spectacular. It looks a lot like the Grand Canyon.

Back on the bikes for the remaining trip down.

Our guide picked flowers for us. Plumeria. If you place it behind your right ear you are available and if it’s behind you left ear you are taken😉

Mines not floppy Camden 😉

We returned to Poipu around 10:30am. When we drove by my Jeep someone had written on it with mud….and threw mud on the door.

It said, “learn how to park” 😳😂

In my defense, it was dark and rainy when I got there and you couldn’t see any lines on the side of the road. Apparently we needed to park head in. Not parallel. One of the other couples on the tour also had mud all over their windshield lol. They parked behind me. Well. Lesson learned 😂😂😂😂

I was soooo tired. Went back and took a nap lol.