nature adventures

This weekend was amazing. When we first moved to Hawaii, BF and I used to do the touristy things all the time, like go to the Sea Life Park, and the beach and drive along the coast etc. Lately though, I feel like we unfortunately have taken it for granted. Life has a way of forcing you to forget to enjoy it and get caught up in the hustle and bustle of the rat race. It's sad, but true.

That's why this weekend was awesome. Saturday we took advantage of the fact that it was a little cloudy and hiked up to Waiamea Falls. I will post pictures at some point, but they are still on my camera for now. It was gorgeous there. The walk to the falls was only about a mile from the park entrance and everything was so green. We debated swimming in the water, but decided it didn't look that clean and it started to rain anyway. I forgot how nice it feels though to get rained on sometimes.

We were walking back to the car and the whole mile there it rained. But, I really didn't mind. It was a light rain and I was kind of hot from the walk there and it felt so refreshing and it made all of the green scenery around us become alive and vibrant. It even smelled green. It was beautiful.

Then on Sunday, we thought it was going to be rainy but we braved the weather anyway to go snorkeling up at North Shore's Shark's Cove. No, we didn't see sharks, but there was so much to look at there that before we even realized it, two hours had gone by and both our backs were completely burnt! Haha. Mine not so much as BF's, but it still is a little sore today.

I have never seen schools of fish so large before. We saw eels, and some sort of spotted sea snake. BF says he saw a barracuda... whether or not that is true I don't know, but I'm glad I don't. Those things are not nice! But we did see some angel fish and some really brightly colored fish and lots of sea urchins. It was so clear and beautiful. I have never been sorrier that I didn't have a camera.

I hope we can have a weekend like this again soon. I think next weekend we may be going horseback riding!! I love it and it's so much fun, so I'll keep you posted :)