Manoa Falls

This is a beautiful hike and I suggest it if you like mosquitos, no not really. The girls at work say it is full of them, but I didn't see one that day we hiked up the slippery path. It had been raining so that is probably what kept the little beasties away, in fact it was raining part of the time that we were hiking. But rain is s different here in Hawaii, not at all a bother like in Las Vegas. It comes and then it goes. On the trail up to Manoa Falls, which you get to by going up through a residentail neighborhood, isn't that weird?, the tree trunks and rocks are all covered with ivy, it looks like something from a science fistion movie and of course at the top the fall is beautiful. The collest thing is the bamboo forest that you are in on the way up the mountain. The Maona Valley receives more than 100 inches of rainfall yearly and you can see it is so from the lush tropical palnts. The great Queen Kamehameha dies here is 1832, she favored the cool hills of the valley as a vacation spot to escape the winter heat.