Mountain Tubing

We had an early start today for our mountain tubing tour at 8am. We headed for Kauai back country adventures, only about 15 minutes down the road. We arrived and had to size up for helmets and gloves, then we waited for a little bit for our ride to the mountain. Our tour guides were entertaining and full of knowledge, telling us about the former sugar plantation we were on, now owned by Steve Case, one of the founders of AOL. We got to look at Mount Waialeale where the water we'll ride on comes from. The mountain gets around 452 inches of rain a year, it's an old volcanic crater and the C shape catches the winds in and forces it upwards creating the clouds we always see up there. We got to get off to take photos of the mountain which is right near where the goat scene from Jurassic park was filmed (the one where the car falls down the hill). The tubing itself was really fun! We rode through the irrigation canals, Ben somehow flew through to the front of the pack and I ended up at the back, constantly spinning, luckily this kind of thing didn't make me motion sick. Like I said, it was so fun, we went through 5 tunnels and we turned our headlamps off for some of them which added to the fun! The last 15 minutes were in the 'lazy river' where you could climb out of your tube and meet back up with your partners or groups and just relax. The water was pretty brisk, still enjoyable, but brisk! And the lazy river had the sun shining straight on us, so I may or may not have tried to nap. After the tubing we had a sandwich bar lunch near the river before heading back to the starting point. We would definitely do this again, there's something similar in NZ which I'd say we'll try and line up while we're there.Read more