Flat Mary Day 8 Diamond Head 1/6

 

Day 8 - Friday, March 21

Hike to Top of Diamond Head

View from the top of Diamond Head

 

After breakfast, Auntie told me to put on my hiking boots. I asked what boots she meant. She said that was just an expression, “Put on your hiking boots, we are going hiking.”

We took TheBus #3 to Diamond Head Road. The trail begins there for the hike to the top of the volcano everyone calls Diamond Head. Hundreds of thousands of years ago, the earth shot hot magma, melted lava, into the sky. The hot lava cooled into hard rock. All of the Hawaiian Islands were formed that way.

 Auntie said we would climb to the top of Diamond Head and look down. We would see the lighthouse, the Pacific Ocean, the pink hotel in Waikiki. We might even see Pearl Harbor and the Waianae Mountains in the background. I wonder if I will be able to see that far.

We hiked up a trail to a car tunnel. There was a walkway on the side and we went through the tunnel. We climbed higher and I could see far. Auntie held me tight so I wouldn’t fall.

 

    

      

  

 

Farther up Diamond Head, we came to a dark cave-like tunnel that was only lit with small lights. We walked through the tunnel. At the lookout, we could see where our walk began. In the picture, I am pointing to a tiny black dot past the open field. That is the opening of the car tunnel we walked through.

A steep set of stairs came next - 99 steps! It was hard to climb straight up like that. It took a while to reach the top. Next we climbed a spiral staircase. Then we had to crawl through a bunker to see the ocean.

 

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Below us, I saw the lighthouse. 

It looks tiny between my thumb and hair ribbon. We went up more stairs.