Yesterday Ronald and I headed past Hawaii Kai after getting done with work for the day. We had just hiked Tantalus last week, so we decided to do a hike with an ocean view. We only had a couple hours before the sun went down so a hike to the Makapu'u Puka sounded just about right for the time we had.
After parking at the Makapu'u scenic lookout, we ran across the road and climbed up next to the fence line.
It's sort of a steep climb at first but right away you're treated with this view of the Makapu'u Lighthouse.
That's Sea Life Park down there. We could see the dolphins and sea turtles from up above.
A closer-up view of Sea Life Park.
If you look to the left, you get this view of Koko Head Crater. The ridge line to the right is the trail to Deadman's Catwalk (an illegal hike that I did last week solo).
Continue along the ridge line towards Waimanalo.
As we were along this ridge I started to hear some noise.
And it wasn't long until I spotted these little guys moving along the mountainside... Wild goats! I bet all of my hunting friends back from Wisconsin can pick at least one out right away.
This was my first time seeing wild goats in Hawai'i. I was really excited. Ronald was pretty pleased to see them too.
And it just so happened that the puka was just around the corner, so we could enjoy this view and watch the goats at the same time.
I love puka pictures. That's Rabbit Island and Makapu'u beach and shoreline down there.
It was a decent sized puka, and only took us under an hour to hike to.
I had to sneak in a quick snap of Ronald.
We said goodbye to the goats and headed back.
You can see Pele's Chair off in the distance.
We saw these flowers along the trail on the way back but I'm not sure what they are called.
We spotted this random lei hanging off a cactus on our way back down.
One last shot before our final descent to the parking lot.
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