Wai'anapanapa State Park Trail

Wai'anapanapa State Park is the park in which our cabin was located while staying in Hana. It is a long narrow park that provides a trail to hike along the coastline for about two miles (or that is what we covered). It offered perhaps the prettiest rocky coast I have seen. The sea is deep blue, the surf turquoise, the shore jagged jet black lava rock with a with green shrub that grew in the rock. Beyond the shrubbery, coconut palms and banyan trees trapped you against the shoreline. The crashing waves made for deafening background noise.
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The park itself is known for a couple of fresh water caves, a black sand beach and a "blow hole". All of which were mediocre when compared to the rest of the park. The caves were cool and there's some legend about a princess and an angry prince regarding the cave (every tourist sight has a legend about a princess). Luckily our cabin opened right onto the trail and it wasn't until the last day that we actually visited the advertised attractions. We found a better "blow hole" about a quarter mile from our cabin. We spent a number of mornings and evenings wandering the trail. We took way too many pictures which we attributed to the fact that we live in Colorado and don't see water very often! I will mostly let the pictures and the videos do the talking.

Katie is surprised by the waves

Yet another tripod picture, this one along the coastline

Wow it's actually sunny out

Chris was very excited about finding this coconut.....and then he got drenched

Yet another picture of the colorful shrubbery along the trail

Yes the waves were really that big at all times

The black sand beach located in the park

The blowhole we found along the trail

Crashing waves against the lava rocks

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