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- Waineke Rd -- This was the entrance from the YWCA sign.
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- Bridge with Metal Slab on the dirt road.
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- 4WD Ford Exploring at the entrance
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- Alaka’i Trail Entrance
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- Wooden Boardwalk trail..most of the time.
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- Stairs heading down
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- Slippery When Wet — This is a swamp after all.
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- River going through swamp trail
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- Check these trees out. Like from a ghostly movie
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- Alaka’i Swamp
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- In the clouds -- Kilohana Lookout
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- Now here is the way it would look, but getting this view, with all the rain that happens to the wettest island in the world, is rare.
I literally had my head in the clouds today on Alaka’i trail to Kilohana Lookout. The clouds where literally and figuratively going all around me. There is a sheer cliff overlooking the island’s north shore 4,000 feet below the Pu’u o Kila Lookout. On the trail, you are walking most of the time on a wooden boardwalk, which helps you keep off the mud. The trail itself goes through swamp land. In order to get here, I am fortunate that I have a 4WD vehicle to get to the start of the trail. I made a right into YWCA direct road that is across from the Koke’e Restaurant and Lodge (the only restaurant up there). Check out this video with the clouds coming up:
