Hawaii 15 - day 5 - island hopping - Lanai'i

For our second day of biking we had to get up early. The ferry to Lana'i was leaving at 6:45. So we got some breakfast and bagged lunch and went on the ferry. After a smooth ride Blaine met us at the pier. Lana'i is a tiny island with one town kind of on top and from there all roads go down like a spiderweb. The plan was to do the three main roads all downhill but we didn't want to do so much down. So we decided to try, going up the least steep of the three, from shipwreck beach. After going down to the beach, watching the ship wreck, that was 'planted' there to scare ships away from the reef, 

we started the climb in the heat. Good, that our support van followed closely again, so, when we had enough, we could hop in and drive the rest. On the island you find pine trees, that were planted by a guy from New Zealand. The trees are taking the moisture out of the air, dripping it to the ground an by this irrigating themselves. With this they even created their own clouds or better pulled down cloud base. 

After lunch in town and a short visit to the museum we went out to the next beach until the road got too steep down. Nice view!

Via a dirt road we made it to some place where king Kameamea would go fishing and even earlier people must have been, according to the petroglyphs.

Some pretty high cliffs there.

Back to Maui

and again a nice sunset and a great dinner