Maui: Day 2: The Road to Hanna: Twin Falls: June 29, 2006

We started our morning with a quick breakfast thru a long wait in the drive thru of Jack and the Box in Kihea. From there we headed north into "Airport Town" where we stopped by at Walmart in search of some kind of water shoes and some bandaids for a blister Brian got on his feet. We then headed off to meet Tom and Steph (and family) down Highway 360 at a place called "Twin Falls".
We weren't quite prepared for the hike that was ahead of us. It wasn't very strenuous but what we really didn't expect was treading up a slippery rock filled stream. If we actually bought water shoes at Walmart, then we wouldn't have a problem, but we thought they were too expensive and passed up on purchasing them. So both of us began to cross the stream up towards the beautiful waterfall that lie ahead.. barefoot. The couple who were ahead of us ended up slipping and falling into the water, damaging thier camera, which made us tread very slow. We found out the big rocks were covered in slime and were very very slippery, and the smaller rocks were easier to work with. It took us about 10 minutes to cross about 15 feet of stream, while other people with water shoes crossed in 10 seconds. When we finally arrived at the fall, it was beautiful. Tons of people swimming, taking photos.
We even got our photo taken, but it turned out all blurry.
We waited for Tom/Steph and family to arrive since they were way behind us attempting to hike the stream all the way. We waited for quite some time when we decided to head back and look for them. As we headed back is when they arrived. So we said our goodbyes and headed back thru the stream. This time, we both kept our shoes on to cross, which was so much easier to cross the stream. We crossed the stream in about 10 seconds, both with soggy shoes. As we hiked down the path back to our car, we ran into a lizard of some sort (a gekko perhaps), hiding in the leaves of a plant. Further down the hike Zenia remembers Tom's mom tell her about some plants on the hike that closed up when you touched it. When she told me, I remembered seeing some crazy people on the hike earlier petting some plants. So we hiked down to that area and sure enough there were these tiny leaved plants (still dont know what they are called) that would close up, much like a venis fly trap, when touched. Its almost as if it camofauged itself to look just like a branch without leaves. After that, we started to crave some cane juice (though we really didnt know how it would taste), got to the parking lot, we continued down the highway on our trek to Hana.