We woke up bright and early the one morning to try and catch the sunrise atop Mt. Haleakala. When I came over for my grandparents anniversary I did the bike tour down and it was amazing. Rebecca said she had never seen it so we decided to give it a go. This involved waking up around 4 am and probably should have been a bit earlier. Unfortunately for us, there wasn't much of a view. Fortunately for us, neither one of us threw up on the way to the top which was a good thing. It's a bit windy and I don't do so well with curves. Anyway, here are a few of our photos from the top of the mountain...
(It's that high up...)
(Rebecca doing a jump shot as we made our way to the top. You can kinda sense how foggy it was at the top.)
(Woah, they even have it in meters for us non-Americans)
(This might just possibly be the highest jump shot of my life...)
(There's a secret hidden message on the glass)
(And here was the reason we woke up so early in the morning... Our wonderful view at sunrise. There were probably about 20 other people hoping to catch a glimpse as well but they all left after about 10 minutes.)
(A boot to add to our random clothing collection...)
(As we started to make our way down the cloud cover cleared up a bit. However, the top was pretty socked in still)
(Rebecca making her way to the edge to check out the view)
(A bit of vegetation at the top. I liked the colors...)
(An impromptu dance party broke out as we began taking photos)
(Rebecca was really getting into it)
(So, we decided to take a nice photo together)
(However, another impromptu dance party took place...)
(And this time I started to get into it)
(Again, a bit of the view. If you are able to see that building in the picture that was our next stop...)
(There was a green house at the visitor center)
(Do Not Feed Nene - 'Oh no no...')
(More interesting plant life)
(There's a bird in the picture - see if you can spot it. Rebecca hopped out of the car to get a good photo and then I blew the horn and it took off and she followed right behind it...)
(The rangers at the building we stopped in recommended the hike and also told us of a red bird that is native to this particular part of the world and only lives in this certain region. I'm not much of a birder but we went to try and find some. While we were able to get a few pictures, the birds weren't in any of them. The hike was nice.)
(Danger... GO BACK!)
(There was a sweet little place to hike)
(Rebecca and I)
(There may have been worms in this water which I just had to see...)
(It's going down, I'm yellin' timber, you better move, you better dance... Although I think it had been down for quite some time.)
(A nice little waterfall)
(If I remember correctly, I believe one of the birds is supposedly in this shot, at least according to Rebecca...)
(Still working on the jump shot timing)
(Often times it takes a few attempts)
(But we usually end up getting at least 1 good shot...)
No comments:
Post a Comment