There's lots of waterfalls in the neighborhood, what with daily rainfall and lava rocks creating these really steep cliffs, guess it just has to happen. Some really big and tall ones, one that's even said to be the highest in the US.
While they're really pretty and so high energy, as they have this really steep and free fall, creating some brilliant caverns by sheer pressure of fall, we also heard stories which told just how treacherous the falls can be too.
Just look at the gorge it's created.... and the noise it makes as it falls is simply thunderous
Kamlesh aunty and Diksha, as we walked down to the area of the falls....a decent trek in there, about a mile and half long ( trying to switch to thinking in miles and pounds...takes too much effort to convert each time :)
The three of us at the falls, another tourist there was sweet enough to offer to take the picture
That's Rainbow falls
There's a walkway up to the top of the drop, and the waters there are so deceptively quiet and pretty that many end up swimming, not heeding the warning signs. And that's where treacherous.... there's been four deaths here in six months.
Marion Joe, Diksha and me near Rainbow Falls
And these deaths from falling off the waterfall have a more personal impact.... the bodies float through the river in the back yard before they reach the ocean. Apparently, two months back the mother of a victim sat in aunty's backyard watching the river while the helicopters were searching for her body. Sad and morbid, huh?
And you figure how appropriately the river is named......... Wailuku translated is 'waters of destruction'.
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