Fern Grotto

Tuesday, September 23, 2025

We got on the Fern Grotto boat tour around 930am. It went up the Wailua River. This is the only commercially navigable river in Hawaii. A lot of people kyak up river to see the Wailua Falls. It takes about an hour to kyak there and twice as long to get back.  Currently, the falls don't have much water.  We chose the boat ride to the Grotto. It was nice. 

We took a short hike through the forest to get to the grotto.

The fern grows upside down. Before the 1992 hurricane, some of the fern were up to 42 feet long. 

There used to be lots of weddings performed here. They still do some weddings, but not as much as before the hurricane. 

These kids were on the tour boat and held their own show! 

This is the field that Harrison Ford ran through and jumped into the river in the Raiders of the Lost Ark movie.

And now it's time to say aloha to Hawaii.  We are at the airport waiting fir the long night flight home.