Queen’s Bath, East Molokai

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Day 3 of our (Baron, Josh, Katie, Jen, Jen, Jen, Seth and I) Molokai Adventures was a real treat; we were able to find Queen’s Bath, which was above a double waterfall on the eastern end of Molokai. We had some minor difficulties finding a way to get down into the valley, but we eventually found a way to access the cold pools which lay above the falls.

The day started just after sunrise, where we ascended a steep dirt trail to access the ridge line. You can see the altimeter track on my watch as we progress in elevation.

The wide dirt trail soon became enclosed by uluhe ferns, but we were still able to track the faint line under the vegetation.

A light sprinkle provided an epic rainbow over the twin waterfalls in the distance, as we hiked up the ridge further.

We passed a vague, steep descent route off of the ridge trail, however the consensus was to push a little further in the case there was more defined route down to the falls. Not finding anything further up, we returned to the junction within 45 minutes.

The path down was overgrown and even steeper than what we had encountered earlier (left), thus I didn’t really get a chance to take any photos until gradient leveled off (right).

Within minutes, we were able to hear the stream nearby and started heading toward the water. We knew the waterfalls were nearby and wanted to see if we would be able to see the waterfalls from the top-down, however we were not able to access the edges of either of them safely.

Heading back upstream, we could see two tiers of short waterfalls in the distance…

…with a small pool, which was deeper near the lower waterfall.

Happy to have arrived at Queen’s Bath, the crew was eager to cool off in the cold water. I was still feeling under the weather from earlier in the week, so I opted to just hand out on the banks and take photos.

The upper falls was nice, but there was not much of a pool.

Fun times and awesome find!

Aloha and mahalo nui for visiting… Come back again soon!

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