Rainbow Falls

Picture by S.M. Culliney










I visited this piece of tropical paradise back in early February. It really was beautiful, just like you see in a travel brochure. What they don't tell the tourists till they get here is that most fresh water in Hawaii is contaminated with a bacteria called Leptosporosis. You are warned not to swim with open wounds and not to put your head under water, both of which I ignored and I survived. But still, it makes you wonder about "paradise".