The day after we hiked 13 miles into and out of Maui’s volcano, we navigated the island’s eastern edges, checking out a couple places we had gotten rained out of in 2009. We were all a sorry lot. My right foot was so overly-adorned with blisters that it was actually swollen, and all our calves would shout vociferously that we ought to just never stand up again.
But we are intrepid. Or at least we are wise enough only to tackle minor adventures. We stopped several times along our “backwards” drive to Hana (all the guidebooks tell you to go the other way for some unknown reason), but our first real outing was at the Seven Sacred Pools. Continue reading