Maui Day 3

So Jennie and I got up at the crack of dawn (5:00) to get to the Eco Skyline Adventures meeting place for the Zip Line experience! We get there with 10 other people, take a last bathroom break, and get in a van and head up the mountain! It's a 20 minute drive through fields that used to be Sugar Cane fields but now are just nothing. Dirty red clay is everywhere. Finally we get to a little hut with 3 horses loitering around. Turns out there used to be a trail guide ride here, yet, the guide gave up doing it, and just let the horse go. The poor beasts almost died of starvation up here, so this lady came up to save them and comes up on her own dime every day to feed and water them. The horses were pretty scruffy, and thin, but were really friendly. They came up and we got to pat them and say hello.

So we got locked into our gear, which is this harness, and this helmet, with these nice guides, then we got into the black van, and were taken to the top of the mountain. So the zip line is this cable strung between two poles over a gorge. You attach your pulley to it, which is attached to your harness. Then you run and jump and the pulley zips you along the cable over the gorge down to the other pole. Each side has a big wooden structure built so you can take off and land.

This might all make more sense with a picture? No?

Opps! That was the friendly horse! Let's instead look at Jennie in her harness and helmet!

So now you want a photo of the zip itself? Here is Jennie just starting on the zip!

Now let's see Jennie actually ON the zip! Here she is!

And here she is landing!!!!

My next post will have VIDEO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And this day isn't over, either. We will see WHALES before it is over. WHALES I tell you. WHALES!