Yesterday, Josh and I went and wandered around Waimea Valley on the North Shore of Oahu. Waimea Valley is a historical nature park consisting of many botanical gardens which contain numerous rare and endangered species of plants. The garden valley is approximately .75 miles in length and has a waterfall and swimming hole at the end. It was a gorgeous day and we enjoyed walking around the different gardens and seeing the waterfall at the end. I also had my first ono pop…which was amazing!

Tree at the start of the valley path.

Lily Pads

So many coconuts on this tree!

‘Alae ‘ula Bird. It had a unique red shield on it’s face.

River bed in the valley.

Pretty flowers in the tree.

Thanks to Kalani and our Flower Farm tour, we both knew these were red gingers!

Yellow Heliconia

Waterfall at the end.

Waterfall and swimming pool at the end.

The path that runs through the valley.

Purple flowers all over the valley.

Mossy path in one of the botanical gardens.

Heliconia

Hanging heliconia

Ginger Flowers

This bird was singing the prettiest song 🙂

This wall of moss and vines.

More vines and moss.

Teaching area in the valley.

Beautiful flowers

A very old piece of a tree of a species that will soon be distinct as there are only 26 left in the world and they are all fruitless and unable to reproduce.

Josh walking up the stairs on one of the paths.

Wall of vines between two trees.

Josh after walking through the vines.

Looking up through a tree at the sky.

Birds with green legs!

Red cat tails.