Hiking Trails on Oahu

  Wailua River Kayak and hike to Uluwehi Falls - October 11, 2016 16 years ago Michelle and I did this kayaking adventure up the Wailua river to a Secret Waterfall. Michelle always gives me a hard time about it as she said I never did any paddling and just sat back and did nothing. That is not entirely true, I think I just needed a break or something.  This time we would take the kids on the adventure up the Wailua river. Jared was scared and got nervous saying, "how dangerous is it?". We assured him that it would be okay.  Apparently back then it was a free for all and companies were letting a lot of people go into the river. This led to problems. Now days, people cannot kayak the river on Sundays and companies are limited to the amount of canoes they can rent out per day. Companies suggest that you do a guided tour which is 3x the price of the rental.  Anyway, we weren't going to do that shit. Nobody is going to guide us anywhere, we were going to do it on our own....

Chinaman’s Hat – July 10, 2012 I always thought that it was difficult to get to Chinaman’s Hat. However, while hiking with my fellow hiker’s, it is apparent that people swim there all the time. I also found out that during low tide, you can actually walk there. In contrast, there are stories of many people dying at Chinaman’s Hat. A few months ago, a group of military men went out to have some fun at Chinaman’s Hat. Unfortunately the tide got too rough and a few drowned. In a different story, someone fell off the trail while trying to get to the top of Chinaman’s Hat and was badly injured. These conflicting stories got me thinking that going to Chinaman’s Hat was a crap shoot. I started to think about the risk. All I wanted to do was to hike to the top. I did my research, looking at articles online and asking people in the hiking community about advice. My plan of attack was to kayak there during low tide. This will decrease the odds of our kayak tipping over. I checked the tide report...