Old Pali Road and Likelike Falls Hike

Mission secret waterfall...successful! =)
Jeff and I decided this morning to seek out the secret waterfall that we tried to find with Craig and Barb. We drove up to the Pali lookout point, parked the truck, and set out on what ended up being a 5 or 6 mile hike. We made sure to take water, food, flashlight and first aid kit so if anything happened we wouldn't be too bad off. It should have occured to us that while walking downhill for the first two miles that walking back up it would suck...but the scenery distracted us. We took our time walking down so we could take lots of pictures!

The beginning of the Old Pali Road...this was the main road over the Pali mountain before the highway was built. The entrance to it is directly below the Pali lookout point viewing area.



The road is overgrown in some spots...I'm pretending to drive a car in this pic...


We ran into a local family on a chameleon hunt...their son found this one!


Our directions to this waterfall we were looking for were literally like this...
Walk down Old Pali Rd. At signed junction follow left curving trail until it dead ends at Pali Hwy. Go down makeshift wooden stairs. Follow trail until another road meets it. Entrance to trail is by the low lying stone wall...and so on. So we obviously missed the left curving trail and kept going until we ended up at a lower lookout point 2 miles down the road. Here are some pictures of us along the way.







Here's a link to a video we took while hiking back up from the bottom of the trail!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQiKEVK-WGU

When we finally made it back up to "where the signed junction" was to lead us to this waterfall we've now been looking for the past hour and a half...we actually found the right trail!

Here are the steps...



....that led us underneath the Pali Hwy...




...and then finally to the Likelike trail head! I put the camera on the low lying stone wall to take this pic...and forgot to take a pic of the actual trail head.


Along the way we came across a rooster and his girls. They were not afraid of us...we could walk right up to them! Jeff was very cautious...his reasoning was they were "wild" chickens...not domesticated ones...and that they could attack at any second! I wasn't cautious at all. I've actually been attacked by a domesticated rooster (and a turkey) and I know exactly where to kick them so they never attack again. I was cracking up because Jeff was throwing rocks at them and tried to shoo them away. Hecka funny.


The Likelike trail was dense and slippery. We had to hike up a few switchbacks with rope hanging from the trees for grip. We kept referring to the "helpful" directions I obtained online to finally make it to........THE WATERFALL! (Likelike Falls)




We were tired, sweaty and almost out of water by the time we got there. It was worth it.


On the way back to the truck we paused to pose with the native Hawaiian art.
Then we called it a day.