Woke up early again to we could drive around to the other side of the island and go up Wiamea Canyon. We all missed the first turn and the second turn to go up the canyon. After a 10 mile detour we got headed up the canyon. We pulled off at all the stops along the way and Dwayne took some pictures. I’ll post some later because I was the assistant and didn’t take any of my own pictures this day. The last stop on the canyon drive is the very top. It looks out over the top of the Na Pali coastline. It is breath taking to look at. After taking the obligatory pictures we headed down the hill. On the way down the “dumb ass you need gas” light came on. As we had no clue how much gas we had left it was a butt clenching ride back down the hill. Pulled into the first gas station we came to and the car took 17 gallons of gas. Found out later that the car actually has a 20 gallon tank so we could have made it no problem. =)
We had an hour to kill before we had to check in for our dinner cruise around The Na Pali coast line. Got ourselves checked in and walked down to the dock. The cruise was on a 55 foot catamaran. You are not allowed to wear your shoes on the boat so we all had to take them off and put them on a rolling cart together with everyone else’s shoes. We leave the dock and move out through the bar. Talk about rough water. The wind was blowing and the water was coming up over the front and sides of the boat. We started getting soaked right from the start of the cruise. The ride did not get any smoother the rest of the cruise. We had large white caps with the wind blowing pretty good. The waves ran the gambit from short and close together to long waves that made the boat dip down in front. He took us out to the end of the coast line and turned us around. Once he turned us around he put up the front sail and cut the engines. I did really good through the entire rough ride out there but when he cut the engines and we were sailing, that’s when I got sick. I wasn’t the only one and the weather just continued to deteriorate from there. He started the engines again and started taking us back in. By the time he got us back we had started getting rained on. I was never so happy to see land in my life. I don’t have any pictures from this part of the night as I was too busy holding on and hoping I would live to see shore again. Rex did get some pictures and just so you don’t think I’m exaggerating I’ll get some from him and post them. Until then you will just have to believe me when I tell you that I think the Columbia on a bad day was better than what we had.