Sunday, July 24
We drove up from our lodgings to the Waimea State Park to get a look at "The Grand Canyon of the Pacific". It was perhaps an hour drive, counting stops along the way, up winding pavement and increasing altitude. A couple of rough spots near the top lookouts due to potholes and such but not too bad.
Here is a preview of the canyon from HI Hwy 50:
Our friendly Lyft driver Larry and Martha....
photo courtesy of Larry H.
Due to the crowded conditions in the parking lots at the lookout points, our friend Larry had us go check out the views while he circled the parking lot in the rental car. What a guy eh? He and Jane had been here before so...
Here's a pano from the main lookout point:
8 comments:
Beautiful area!
Indeed RichardM, better without so many people but what can one do eh?
Wow, now I know what the Grand Canyon might look like if there was a lot of rain and water in Arizona.
The colors are almost surreal and you definitely had some pretty dramatic light there. It's so strange to see these sorts of landscape pictures from you without the TW200 in the picture!
Isn't the summer "off season" for Hawaii?
Steve, truly some great coloration within this canyon....as to the missing TW200, navigating the narrow access road, filled with blind curves and often blinder tourists and their rental cars would have been "interesting".
RichardM, I'm told by my friends it is actually less crowded during winter....right now kids are out of school in the mainland.
Beautiful area. I had no idea of such a place on the islands.
Neither had I before this trip, Bluekat...imagine hiking within in it.
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