‘It makes no sense to throw a tantrum, you’re not a child,’ our editor generously conceded. ‘After today’s hike, we’ll pass by the car rental company and ask them to swop “the piece of iron” as you call it for a proper car. Do you feel better now?” Sometimes our editor develops an attitude that puts us in our place. Of course, we don’t much like that. At least, we have a decent motor car. We are now debating whether our editor should ride upfront with ‘the child’.
Yesterday was a day of sunshine and extreme wind. So today we covered ourselves with sunscreen and swallowed a few ‘tums’—must be the Hawaiian food. Our editor rolled her eyes again—we suppose she’s right. Anyway, we headed north to the part of the island that is extremely wet. We had wasted our time with the sunscreen. The route was tricky and we did lose our way. Go figure! Directions will be the “death of us”. ‘Pop in there and see if they can guide us to the trailhead,’ we suggested. It turns out that we had stopped at a mortuary. Well, we take help wherever we can get it.
We debated whether to hike as it was raining hard, low clouds were hanging about ominously, the mist was moving in vigorously but otherwise it was a perfect day. Have faith we thought but a rain jacket might be useful, too. How could we not give it a try? In the end, it was a great day filled with spectacular sights in the rainforest when the weather allowed, a steep climb and a difficult return down a slippery slope. We each had an occasion when the feet slid swiftly under us and found ourselves sitting in the mud. The 5-6 mile hike was not long but with 1600 feet elevation gain on a wet trail, it was exciting enough. Should the sun shine in this part of Maui next week, we’ll try it again.
On our travels, we always have an eye out for snakes and bears, in fact, four eyes. At the end of the trail, we came across a cow, maybe it was a bull (we didn’t look closely) that gave us the ‘once over’ and was quite aggressive and intimidating. However, we were never in doubt, especially while cowering behind our beloved editor.
Cheers,
Jenni and her ‘Bull’.
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