04/25/17 Hawaii - Day five

04/25/17 Hawaii - Day five - Stone Dam

Look closely, you can see Stone Dam in the back of the picture
Beautiful scenery after walking through thousands of trees.

Tuesday morning we got up and were looking for something fun to do. One of our ideas was highly rated so we decided to try to find stone dam. The hike was free -- and four miles round trip. We walked through a beautiful mahogany tree forest for quite awhile and then it opens up to a beautiful oasis and dam.

It looked like something out of a fairy tale when we arrived at the dam.

At one point we went down to play in the water (recommended in our review we read) and on the way up Andy stepped into some quick sand that immediately went up to his knees in mud. It was really scary at first not knowing how far he would sink. He had to crawl his way out and had mud all over his hands, pants, legs etc.

Then we had to walk 2 miles back all muddy.

Afterward we cleaned up and went back to my favorite Chicken in a barrel. So delicious!

View out the window on our drive to Stone Dam

86,000 trees in this mahogany forest

Really didn't want to jump the creek!

You can kind of see the mud everywhere...it was worse
than this picture makes it look!

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