The Helicopter Ride

Helicopter ride day was a good one. Here we are getting ready to take off.

Below is Molokai. Parts of Jurassic Park were filmed here. It has the tallest sea cliffs in the world, according to the pilot.

Molokai is known as the Friendly Island. It's not politically correct, but I think of it as the leper island. The old colony is still there, but people now live there strictly by choice. We did not fly over it.

Below is less rugged Maui. The waves break so far out and give such long rides, I can see why surfers like to surf there.

The last picture was taken after the ride. The pilot was conservative and did nothing especially scary, unlike some other pilots I have ridden with. Music accompanied the ride, but he didn't swoop or spin in time with the music, like others I've seen. That was fine. There was no need to go to bed afterwards to recover.

The only bad thing was that a DVD of the ride wasn't available. The equipment malfunctioned. It was such a short ride, it would have been nice to re-live it a few more times.