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Starting off on the Kahakai Trail from Kīpahulu Campground.
View back west on the Kahakai Trail.
Coconut palm/niu (Cocos nucifera) along the Kahakai Trail.
View up the slopes of Haleakalā's Kīpahulu Valley Biological Reserve.
View out over the ocean from the Kahakai Trail.
View out over the ocean from the Kahakai Trail.
Kahakai Trail.
One of five walk-in campsites along the Kahakai Trail, and a part of Kīpahulu Campground.
View southwest along the Kahakai Trail with beach cabbage (scaevola taccada) in the foreground.
View back up the slopes of Haleakalā.
View of the 'Ohe'o Gulch from Kūloa Point.
View of the 'Ohe'o Gulch from Kūloa Point.
View of the 'Ohe'o Gulch from Kūloa Point.
Banyan tree/paniana (ficus benghalensis) along the Kūloa Point Trail.
Banyan tree/paniana (ficus benghalensis) along the Kūloa Point Trail.
A screw-pine/hala (pandanus tectorius) along the Kūloa Point Trail.
A screw-pine/hala (pandanus tectorius) along the Kūloa Point Trail.
The Kīpahulu Visitor Center in Haleakalā National Park.