A Hawaiian Kaleidoscope - Kaua'i: the Na Pali Coast and Koke'e Park - February 2012

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Kalepa Ridge

Pretty little cascade

Another look west

After our meeting with Bill, we continued east along the trail, soon crossing his excellent trail work at the exposed Chivalry Point section. After that, we hiked up more Bill Summers-stabilized switchbacks and crossed into wide and shady Hanakoa Valley.

Jenn on 'exposed' section

Brian on 'exposed' section

Open Gulley

A rest in Paradise

Down Lower Manono Ridge

Hanakoa Valley

In order to reduce weight, we once again had only partially filled up our water reserves when we had started off, and it was now time to replenish them. We stopped for a long break at Hanakoa stream to filter another six litres of water - enough to get us back to the Kalalau Trailhead.

Hanakoa Stream Filtering

Beautiful Lama Forest

Helicopter and Hanakoa Falls

Soon we were heading east out of Hanakoa Valley. We started to get a few intermittent showers, possibly a result of us moving back east towards the more rainy windward side of Kaua'i (Or possibly the weather had simply become more rainy all on its own). In any case, we were again treated to a successive sequence of beautiful rainbows.

180-degree rainbow

View east to Ke'e Beach

New red lama leaves

Back at the eastern entrance to Hoolulu Valley, we once again reached the highpoint of the Kalalau Trail at Space Rock. This time we took the extra effort to walk around to the seaward side of the rock and were rewarded with an awesome perch eight hundred vertical feet above the turquoise-hued waters below.

courtesy JInnes

View from Space Rock

Coast Guard Hercules

Back to slick mud

As we approached Hanakapi'ai Valley, the trail once again started to revert to slick, slippery mud. And once at Hanakapi'ai, we met the crowds again. Only a fraction of the people who start out from the trailhead go past Hanakapi'ai, that's for sure.

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