As I type this, I am sitting on the patio of a B&B outside of Hilo, Hawaii (the big island) in a torrential downpour. It is 9:40 pm Hawaii time, 12:40 am at home in Arizona. We are at the end of day seven of our trip, but I am going to start this post with Day 1.

We arrived in Maui on Wednesday, May 22nd in the early evening and got to our hotel after sunset.

On Thursday morning, we hit the ground running. After a room service breakfast at the Royal Lahaina, we took to the “Road to Hana” for the day.

Just the opportunity to see this gorgeous tree, in person, would be worth the drive. It is the rainbow eucalyptus, Mindanao gum, or rainbow gum tree. Isn’t it amazing!?!

But there is more than one pretty tree and a cool surfboard fence to see along the way.

Our first stop was Twin Falls. You enter through a tiny little passage at Wailele Farms.

There are two separate falls, this is the first, with a lovely swimming hole.

After the small fall, you continue to hike another 15 minutes or so and go past this cool rock/tree bridge thing.

And eventually, the path ends at the second, taller fall.

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