We hired a convertible chrysler today for 2 days...I know what you're all thinking! Travellers do not have convertibles...but it actually worked out at 13 pounds each days! Plus and you have already read that the bus system is as good as useless if you want to get to more than one place in a day! Transport is essential! Ok i feel i have justified myself now :)

Seemed to get to grips with driving on the wrong side of the road and car, hannah kept telling me if i was in the middle of the road or not! We headed to Ho'opika beach again, this time to see the windsurfers... i was not dissapointed! There were about 50 windsurfers out along with loads of surfers and kite surfers, all sticking to their patch! The waves we good again and it was awesome watching the windsurfers jump them. We went back to Pa'ia for lunch and then started our drive to Haleakala Crater. Driving hair pin bends up this crater was a little scary and we were wondering whether the sky would be clear from the top or not as it was a little drissely. Once we had made our way through the cloud we burst into the brightest blue sky i'd ever seen!! It was breath taking. There were rainbows everywhere from the mist and the clouds. Never seen anything like it! We drove straight to the summit of 10'023 feet and it was bloody freezing (42 degrees C)!!! Luckily i'd heard how cold it was so took extra jumpers, hannah only had shorts on so was a little nippy!! The cold wind literally took your breath away and i actually found it hard to breathe. Science city was just beyond the summit which is a place where the airforce and university have astronomical observatories there. We were not allowed near it so viewed it from the summit point of Red Hill. There we got a good look at the silver sword plants, plants which have silver hairs on them and literally look like little swords sticking out of the ground. We drove back down the crater to the next look out point of the upper visitor centre, we decided that this would be a great place to watch the sunset so we headed down further to Kalahaku and Leleiwi points to have a look, the crater looks like the surface of the moon, very strange. Once the sun started to set we went back to the upper visitors point and stayed in the car to watch the sunset above the clouds, it was stunning, you might even say spiritual! lol. On the way back down it started to obviously get dark. there were lots of cows on the bendy roads so had to be so careful not to hit them - there were definately near misses! We headed back to the Ka'ahumanu centre and watched changling at the cinema.