Thursday afternoon exploring

Next we jumped on the highway and headed for the West coast, we haven't been over there before and or wasn't too far away. The highway went most of the way which was good, because it was fast, but also it meant we couldn't see the ocean very well. We could see the mountains and makaha valley clearly and stopped off a few times to take some photos. Ben got used to driving on the right pretty quickly, me though as a passenger, not so much. First stop was Kaena point and cave, it was a pretty little stop. As we were cruising around, stopping in and out of other spots we came across so many shanti towns, pretty permanent looking set ups. There are a lot of homeless in Hawaii, but we haven't really come across any this or last time, I think we found where they've been hiding. We went looking for the mermaid caves which are underground off one of the beaches, you can climb down when the tide is low and it's like a mini, protected beach. We found it, but the holes to climb down were a bit tight for my liking and we could hear some American accents down there too, so we decided not to climb down. It was time to cool off so we relaxed and swam for a while at Forac beach. Nice little spot, no big waves either which was good. It was getting late and we were getting hungry, so we dried off and headed back to the north shore. We've seen a lot about the shaved ice and Matsumoto is apparently the best, so we tracked it down and tried some. There were so many different flavours to choose from, we went with lemonade, orange and bubblegum. It was tasty and refreshing. We had a look through the boutiques and it was dinner time. Haleiwa Joe's for dinner, we got a few small plates to share then headed back to the accommodation. Pretty quiet night, just watching The Incredibles 2 and playing Mario Kart.Read more