About Big Island Helicopter Waterfalls
The vast majority of these waterfalls are concentrated on the windward sides of both the Kohala Mountains as well as Mauna Kea. Most of these are either inaccessible or private. Thus, I created this page to showcase the waterfalls seen on our lone successful helicopter tour.
One thing I want to mention on this page is Kapoloa Falls. This was the same waterfall that Samantha Brown featured on her show, which Julie and I chanced upon while channel surfing one day. Unfortunately, the Kona Earthquake of October 2006 caused extensive damage to the Kohala Ditch Trail deep into Pololu Valley thereby rendering this waterfall inaccessible to the general public as guided tours (which were required because the trail passed through private land) were no longer offered.
So the only way to see this waterfall would be by helicopter, and that’s why I decided to say something about it on this page. In our particular 2008 tour, I had asked our pilot if he was willing to fly into the back of Pololu Valley to see this falls (which he verbally said yes), but as the tour went on, he ended up forgetting about it so we were never able to photograph the falls.
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