Waimea Falls would have to be one of my favourite botanical gardens on this planet. A visit here can be nicely combined with a drive through the countryside, going past the dole company and driving on the H2 up north, hitting the 803 and around Kamooloa the 83 which gets you along the coast to Waimea.
The park itself stretches for about 5 km inland and at the end you see the famous waterfalls.
Boys want to have fun. And it’s fun to watch!
You can go up on the one side and down on the other side of the river.
And on your way you will find trees and plants from the entire region of Polynesia and beyond. It’s a fantastic walk through a beautiful landscape.
One of the most exotic flowers I have ever seen here
And I can tell you, my photo files contain probably a few hundred if not thousands of pictures from there.
I don’t think I ever travelled to Hawaii without a visit of Waimea.
Going back to Waikiki and not wanting to take the same road through the country, you can either take the longer way around the northern tip of the island, passing by the PCC and then going through the Wilson tunnel back to the south coast, or you take the western coastal road – where there is a short stretch of rough road around Koena Point.
Taking this way along the west coast gets you a fair bit out of the ‘glamour’ of touristy Oahu and into some more, what you might call, rough areas where not many tourists would go or be found.
One day I ended up in Barbers Point. Wonderful beach with the obligatory palm tree but also a large rubbish dump just off the beach.
It somehow makes it clear that they have to put the rubbish somewhere, which they and we the tourists produce during our visits!
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