First, here’s a video of a boxfish from a few days ago. It was on my camera when I copied photos from today over. 😛

Last time we were in Oahu I told Miranda that I wanted to hike one of them mountains we were always driving past. They are stunning looking, and right there. I found a site describing a few hikes and picked one that seemed reasonable. The “short version” of it was 3 miles round trip (I’m in the US, have to measure in miles) for about 900 feet of elevation gain. So steep, but not Grouse Grind steep.

Here’s the GPS tracker details. It took us 3 hours to go up and down. At the top (of our chosen route) we stopped to have a banana and feed Ava and met some people who were very taken with her. One of them was a surf photographer who was so taken with her, he absolutely had to have an impromptu photo session with her. We played with her to make her smile, carried her to places around the area he wanted to take a picture of her with. We’re hoping to see something come of it! He took a LOT of photos.

Here’s some photos!

Before we started, that’s the hill we’e climbing.

The hill is near the local recreational airport so we saw lots of planes going up and down, dropping skydivers out of them and this one – a plane towing a glider! We saw one glider do a series of acrobatic moves that were super impressive.

The trail head.

My passenger.

At the end, Ava was getting a lot whiny so I took off quickly down hill to get her to the car quicker so she could nap. On the way down, I realized she’d stopped whining behind me. I took a little hand mirror out of my pack (which came with the pack) and checked — slumped over. I asked a passing hiker to check to see if my baby was asleep and it was confirmed. She only had a 20 minute nap, which isn’t enough, but it’s nice to now she can sleep here!

She just woke up again, and I’m hoping to hit the water, but it’s not super hot out anymore so who knows what we’ll get up to!