{"id":23363,"date":"2015-12-28T08:48:49","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T16:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=23363"},"modified":"2015-12-27T12:09:31","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T20:09:31","slug":"hawaii-getting-adventurous-and-soaking-in-sights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=23363","title":{"rendered":"Hawaii: getting adventurous and soaking in sights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had never zip lined before but decided to be adventurous (and brave!) when Q suggested it as a family activity. So on the second full day of our trip, we got up early and drove to the\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gohawaii.com\/en\/big-island\/regions-neighborhoods\/hamakua-coast\/#customOrder:random^newCustomSearch:false\">Hamakua Coast<\/a>, known for its rainforests, waterfalls, and gorgeous sights, and home to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbgi.com\/\">Botanical World Adventures<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0We wound up zipping on lines as high as 200 feet, with a canopy of green below our feet &#8211; and it was hands-down one of the coolest things I&#8217;ve ever done! (The girls were totally fearless, too; Avery, because of her size,\u00c2\u00a0was attached to an instructor on her first few zips, but by the end, she\u00c2\u00a0opted\u00c2\u00a0to go on her own.) After our adventure, we\u00c2\u00a0walked through the gorgeous and green rainforest (where it felt as if we were in a different world)\u00c2\u00a0before visiting nearby\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gohawaii.com\/en\/big-island\/regions-neighborhoods\/hamakua-coast\/akaka-falls-state-park\/\">Akaka Falls<\/a>, a 442-foot waterfall. Q and I saw it the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Q-and-Shell-at-waterfalls.jpg\">\u00c2\u00a0last time<\/a> we were on the island, but &#8211; because of the recent rainfall &#8211; it was much more impressive this time around.<\/p>\n<p>-M<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23372\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/family-ziplining.jpg\" alt=\"family ziplining\" width=\"403\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/family-ziplining.jpg 403w, http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/family-ziplining-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23373\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Avery-ziplining.jpg\" alt=\"Avery ziplining\" width=\"300\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Avery-ziplining.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Avery-ziplining-226x300.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23371\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Zoe-ziplining.jpg\" alt=\"Zoe ziplining\" width=\"399\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Zoe-ziplining.jpg 399w, http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Zoe-ziplining-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23364\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Avery-at-gardens.jpg\" alt=\"Avery at gardens\" width=\"403\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Avery-at-gardens.jpg 403w, http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Avery-at-gardens-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23365\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Zoe-at-gardens.jpg\" alt=\"Zoe at gardens\" width=\"403\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Zoe-at-gardens.jpg 403w, http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Zoe-at-gardens-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23366\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/waterfalls.jpg\" alt=\"waterfalls\" width=\"302\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/waterfalls.jpg 302w, http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/waterfalls-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 302px) 100vw, 302px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23411\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Avery-and-Daddy-in-rainforest.jpg\" alt=\"Avery and Daddy in rainforest\" width=\"403\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Avery-and-Daddy-in-rainforest.jpg 403w, http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Avery-and-Daddy-in-rainforest-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23367\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/girls-at-gardens.jpg\" alt=\"girls at gardens\" width=\"301\" 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So on the second full day of our trip, we got up early and drove to the\u00c2\u00a0Hamakua Coast, known for its rainforests, waterfalls, and gorgeous sights, and home to the Botanical World Adventures.\u00c2\u00a0We wound [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-90-two-kids-oct-dec15"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23363"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23413,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23363\/revisions\/23413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}