Dillingham Airfield Hike

We went hiking with Isaiah's cub scout troop today at Dillingham Airfield.  There was this great boat at the beginning of the hike that I just HAD to have my picture taken with!  It describes me on every hike we go on. =)

This next picture is of the entire airfield.  This is where you go (on Oahu) if you want to go skydiving.  You can see a plane over the ocean if you look close.  (This is six photos, shot vertically, and stitched together in Photoshop)

This final shot is all of us at the top.  My kids all raced up the trail and had half their lunches gone before I made it to the top.  Darwin was kind enough to stay with me even though I was a "Slo Poke".  I love hiking...I'm just not very good at it. =)

Diamond Head Crater

We've lived here on Oahu for 18 months...and this was our first time to hike up to the top of Diamond Head Crater.  It was so worth it!!  What an amazing view!!

Hiking to the top.

Kids waiting for me to catch up...

This is me resting.  I had to stop and rest A LOT...

Can you see all the little faces??

Going back down.

4th of July

Last night, we drove down to Darwin's office to watch the fireworks going off at the Aloha Tower over the ocean.  They were great...and very short.  This morning, we took Brooklin to Schofield for a xcountry fundraiser.  She had to work at the bouncy house booths for the 4th of July stuff on Schofield...so we dropped her off and then went hiking on the Kolekole trail.  It was beautiful!

 

The sign at the head of the Kolekole trail describes this interesting rock this way.  "It is a large stone with a unique natural bowl and drainage trough that has attracted considerable attention over the years.  After the old woman who watched people pass the stone that served as a territorial marker.  Some speak of the rock being used for sacrificial beheadings of defeated warrior chiefs."

 Above is a photo of the bowl in the rock.  On the backside of the rock (below) there is a step.  Very interesting...

These mountains are just enormous!  If you look close, you can see Darwin and the kids.  It was so beautiful at the top.  We didn't do the crazy/scary part of the hike...this is all the further we went, but Caleb did the longer hike with his scout troop.

Geocaching in the jungle

We decided to go geocaching on the last day of the year.  We drove up to Moanalua and then went on a hike in a lot of mud.  There were some ruins up by the second cache we found that were pretty cool.  When we got to the park we realized that our GPS was out of batteries and we didn't have any in the car.  Luckily we were able to find two caches using Darwin's iPhone with the geocaching app!!  very cool stuff!

The cache

At the cache location with the iPhone.

Here are some of the ruins...and Brooklin up in a tree.

This was an oven right in the middle of the "jungle"

A little stream

When you look at this it doesn't seem very impressive, until you see the family in the bottom right corner!!

A couple shots of the muddy shoes...