We continued exploring the north coast which led us to our hunt for the "haiku." Not really a haiku, the poem...but Christopher and I coined the term due to our lack of ability to pronounce Hawaiian words. Heiaus, or temples, are scattered all over the island and were associated with King Kamehameha (we call him King K). After passing a windmill farm and gorgeous coastline, we walked around for a while trying to find this haiku which was supposed to be King K's birthplace. Instead of finding the haiku, we found a couple who had thought their Jeep was 4WD, but wasn't, and had gotten majorly stuck in a mud hole. One thing that Hawaii is lacking in are proper roads. The mud was up to the bottom of their door! Christopher tried to help him for almost an hour. After giving it the good college effort, they called AAA and we left seeing the haiku in the distance but too dang tired at that point to walk to it! No need to worry...there were many more haikus seen on this trip.
We also visited Lapakahi State Historical Park, which consisted of the remains of an old Hawaiian village. We saw our first haiku there; Hawaiians still use these for worship and lay offerings.
And of course, we made it back to the hotel in time for the nightly show.
Beautiful! Sounds like you guys had a lot of fun!
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