Good morning and happy Saturday! Yesterday was such a long day, but it was also incredibly rewarding. We left our airbnb at 9:30 am to head over to South Point, the southernmost point of the entire United States. We stopped for gas on the way and Kaden taught us all about Mauna Pua, a Portuguese sweet bread filled with chop suey pork. It wasn’t my favorite, but I was still pleasantly surprised by it! We then finished the drive down to South Point and parked in the parking lot so we could hike down to Papakōlea, one of only four green sand beaches in the world!
It was a 2.8 mile hike to get there, but it was fairly flat and the views were gorgeous the entire way. Once we got there, we ate our sandwiches and dipped our toes in the water before exploring the cliffs on the side of the beach. We looked at the different layers of rock that make up the cliffs and used them to create a stratigraphic column, or a column that shows different rock layers in order to see how the geology of an area has changed over time. It was super cool, and afterwards we were able to swim for a little while before heading back!
On the way back to our airbnb, we stopped for dinner at this place called Thai Thai. I got chicken pad thai, and we all got shirley temples! It was so much fun, but by the time we got back to our airbnb at 8:30 pm, I was so tired that I just took a shower and went right to sleep.
That’s all for yesterday! Thanks for following along!
– Caroline