The Road to Hana

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Aloha!
Another early day. They seem to get earlier as the week progresses.
We got on the road out of Kehei by 6:00am.
First a stop at McD's for coffee to go and then clockwise around the island to Hana. The road was all our own, just like we'd planned.
Most of the tourists don't get up and going until later, maybe 9:00. We drove and stopped, hiked, and tried our best to discover what the two tour books intended. Sometimes we were so far off base it ended in a half hour goose chase.
Once we discovered that the mile-markers stopped and started at whim and that they weren't always there and that they didn't always keep in sync, we did better. We saw so many waterfalls I thought I'd better stop boring you with more and more pictures.
We found beautiful pools at the end of short up-hill hikes. One in particular we found by disregarding the No-Trespassing sign. Now wait just a minute....we were told by our tour book that those signs are illegal and put up by the locals for spite. It's all public land with public access. Besides, this was a hunting road and even though we'd left our red plaid jackets at home, we felt very obvious by our volume. The hunters probably wondered when they'd been over-run by hyenas.
After a while we noticed that we were seeing the same cars over and over. Stopping where we were or were leaving as we got there.
It started to rain during our lunch break at Hana Bay. A few silly looking waves and a few more silly looking maybe-honeymooners.
We tried to go the whole way around but discovered a bridge was out. We got a little farther than the Seven Sacred Pools ( which is neither sacred nor are there seven) and were turned around by huge barriers. Apparently there was an earthquake last year and a few bridges were shook loose. We drove over a quasi repaired one...it looked like tinker toys placed right next to the damaged one. It was pretty scary looking but we got home safe and sound.
KW fired up the grill.
Tonight we had steaks, baked potatoes, grilled zucchini, grilled bananas, pineapple sherbet.
Tomorrow is the ZipLine day and Shunshine is trying her best to find a reason to stay home.