How much does a helicopter tour to Hawaii waterfalls cost? — featuring Holly and Luke (Blue Hawaiian Helicopters)

0:12 Welcome to the Big Island of Hawaii. We are here with Blue Hawaiian Helicopters doing an hour in the air tour with apparently a 30-minute helicopter landing. We are about to see the Big Island North Shore, the Kohala Coast from the sky.

0:38 Buckled in. Ready for that water landing? Let's go. We're going to water land? I hope not. What causes that pattern of the different color hues on the water? So, the lightest colors, the kind of bluish, that's all sand on the sea floor. But, the the darkest stuff is

1:04 rocks and coral. I don't see any whales on the surface, but I kind of think they've been in this area and they might be down under right now. But, there's one right right in front of us. So, he's going under. Do you see the little ripple in the water where it was? And there's a shadow.

1:20 There's two of them. There's two of them in the water right here. There's one right there on the right. They just They're whales everywhere. That's incredible. Yeah, they absolutely are. It's whale season. That's what happens out here. This is the uh dividing line again between the two sides of the island.

1:38 Rainforest back to desert happens super fast. You guys have been seeing the feral goats we've got. You can find them pretty easy by looking for the the uh brown spots. Notice this huge brown rectangle in front of us. Guaranteed, it's full of goats. They ate all the grass. The waterfall on our right side over

1:53 here, Waiehuikahi Falls, 1,500 ft. It's already double up ahead. We're going to go in there in just a second. This one is basically as tall as the Empire State Building already. Directly in front of us is a formation known as the keyhole. It's home to the tallest waterfalls on the island, 2,600 ft tall bottom to half

2:08 a mile tall. We've flown for about 30 minutes and we just landed in this super remote area with a waterfall and it's It's called the Waimea Falls, I think. Only accessible by this helicopter and we have it all to ourselves. It's

2:33 about 1,200 ft tall, but the cliff and 700 ft of it is the waterfall itself. I just can't believe how remote this is.

3:08 If you go to the grocery store here, you can find this kind at the store? Yeah. But it's not the typical I think the other one's called Cavendish that you normally find at the store. Cavendish? Yep. And these are apple bananas, which is probably a nickname for them. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, exactly. They're not apples. They

3:23 don't even taste like apples, but they taste different. And everybody who eats one of these Okay. It's way better. Once the bananas come, they it's one time and then the tree the bananas get ripe and then the tree basically slowly dies off. So, if you're going to harvest them, only one time,

3:37 yeah. wow. grow super fast. Like a tree will sprout, like here's a little one. This will be full grown with bananas on it in like a year. Oh my god. And then it'll die and then another one is growing next to it. Wow, that's crazy. Yeah. So, when you find a ripe one, then you cut the whole tree down. There is no

3:52 point leaving it. You just cut it down, cut the bananas off. Well, I know the leaves are used for a lot, so that makes more sense cuz it's not needed anymore. Exactly. Okay. There's a big bunch up there. These trees are so hollow and light. Notice suddenly there's fresh like relatively fresh lava right here. That's

4:17 because we're switching from being alongside Mauna Kea to Mauna Loa slopes. Mauna Loa is the volcano hiding away up in the clouds there on the left considered active, last erupted in 1984, but it's been erupting about once every 5 to 6 years on average in all of its recorded history.

4:47 Well, unfortunately, we're getting pretty close back to the helicopter. Want to thank you guys for coming. Thank you. You're welcome. All right, welcome back. That was spectacular. There you go. So, these ones are called what? Apple banana. Apple banana. Literally, that came from where we were

5:11 walking. That's one of the That little girl. Yeah. Okay. Apple. Yep. Oh, these are going to be great. So, that was incredible. Like, I don't know why everyone sleeps on the Big Island, but it has everything. So, that was probably the best helicopter tour Luke and I have ever been on. I mean, we've

5:29 only done a few, but we've done a few. So, uh Shane from Big Island Helicopters is the best. One little tip for what we did was we actually booked it through bigislandhelicopters.com, not through Blue Hawaiian's website, and it It like $40 cheaper per person, but it was like the same company, so do with

5:50 that what you will, but we had a great experience. We've been on the Big Island here for just about 2 weeks and we're not vlogging most of it cuz this is just a family trip, but we do have another country coming really soon that is going to be quite the opposite of this. So, subscribe if you would like to see more

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