Ziplining in Kauai!

Ziplining in Kauai!


Probably one of the top 2 highlights of my trip was going ZIPLINING!!!! Yes, no joke. Mom was planning on going too until Griffin reminded her that she is scared of heights! haha. So she went to the botanical gardens while I joined other USBank winners from around the US to go Ziplining!
The ziplining course was actually on a ranch.


This is a picture of one of my instructors and one of my group members. Our instructors were awesome! They taught us where to hold the cords in a way we could control what direction we faced or if we wanted to spin in circles as we zoomed across etc. I learned how to give myself as much speed as possible by holding my legs up close to me and toward the sky as well.Isn't it gorgous? We got to zip over rivers, streams, rainforest terrain and more! Gosh it was so paradisiacal!
Also as part of the adventure we got to walk across this bridge with huge gaps in the steps. Seriously we were about 150 feet above a river which looked super tiny while looking down. The big branches and rocks stood out to me beneath as I imagined what it would be like to fall onto them... and yes that is me on the bridge :)
Each of the 10 ziplines were preceeded by a sign (naming the zipline and designating it's length)

I had a couple short videos but I couldn't figure out how to post them. One of the best parts was when we, as a group, hiked to a nearby pond with a waterfall. This is me about to jump in! You can see many of my group members already had and were tubing in the background. It was so gorgous and relaxing that I really could have stayed in there for over an hour.

...but I couldn't because we still had more ziplining to do! This is the very last one...the King Kong. I'm trying to remember just how long it really was ...I think it was 1200 feet long. Those of us who don't weigh very much had to really get a running jump into it because we don't have much weight to carry us all the way across. But with good form (putting my legs up...booty first) I made it!
I couldn't not include this... This is a baby pineapple. Apparently it takes over one year for just one pineapple to mature! I never knew that!