This is it … the clear highlight of our first five weeks!

If ever you come to Hawaii, save your pennies, throw away your fears, and do this flight …

We took a little machine with NO DOORS! Jan and I were in the back, one on each “door” … perfect morning … just look at this …

up over the airport, the town and the harbour (our ship in the distance) …

past the falls featured in Jurassic Park, the movie …

the country got more rugged, but still wet …

then a little further over a ridge, and here a “technical” desert and a 3000 foot deep canyon called the “grand canyon” of Hawaii …

… with a magnificent waterfall at the head of the canyon …

then over the ridge to the Na Pali cliffs … totally inaccessible even on foot …

we flew low over beaches and up into little valleys …

gradually the cliffs give way to less rugged coast and accessible beaches and coral reefs …

and then to Hanalei Bay …

back inland past dozens, if not hundreds, of waterfalls and green jungle …

and towards the highest peak, rarely seen because of clouds, but we were lucky …

and then we flew right into the collapsed (extinct) volcano …

back to the coast where we had started, and past the falls we had seen from the ground …

safe on the ground, adrenalin rushing …

Mahalo, Ben! (and Jack Harter Helicopters)