That Friday morning we got up and went to the Keaiwa Heiau State Rec. Area to go on the Aiea Loop Hike. We met some people in the parking lot who had just finished and they told us it was a two hour hike. So we found the trailhead and started on our hike. (Actually, we ended up unknowingly hiking the trail backwards, but it worked either way!)
The forrest was full of eucalyptus trees. It was so neat to see them! You could smell them as you walked too. So cool! This is a picture we took of one of them:
This trail was SO cool. Once again, moss and ivy covering everything.
Well, the people who told us about the hike at the beginning must have totally booked it through the hike because it took Josh and I over 3 hours! Granted, we were stopping to take pictures here and there, but it was definitely longer than we thought. We came out covered in mud, but it was so much fun! Such a beautiful hike.
After our hike we were pretty hungry, so we just found a restaurant that was nearby. We ended up going to one called the Highway Inn. We didn't know it until we got there, but apparently it was a restaurant featured on Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives from Food Network. It had a big signed poster of Guy Fieri on the wall. The food was pretty good. I had their Kalua pork sliders and Josh had their chicken laulau combo.
After lunch we headed up north to see the Dole Pineapple Plantation. When we got there, we saw these cool trees. They looked like they were painted, but they were not - that's how they all looked naturally:
We saw all different varieties of pineapples at the plantation:
This is a red colored variety:
We went on this little train ride tour through the plantation.
We got to see all different kinds of tropical fruit trees. This one was a lychee tree:
Papaya tree:
Some of the pineapple fields. We learned all about the history of pineapple and how it came to be grown in Hawaii.
Pineapple harvesting machine:
We even saw a rainbow! Pictures never do them justice though. :)
Sugar cane:
Mango tree:
After our tour we tried some of their pineapple ice cream. I'm not usually a
fruity ice cream fan, but this was pretty good!
Next, we drove back to the north shore and went to Laie to see the temple. It was so pretty and peaceful there.
We then drove up to a nearby beach to watch the sunset.
After the sun set, we stopped by a nearby fruit stand. We bought some more papayas and apple bananas, coconut juice in the coconut, some fried bananas (it was a banana wrapped in a egg roll wrapper type thing and fried. It was pretty good! We also got a bag of sugar cane to try:
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