Walk to Goat Island

Here are the senior missionaries that joined us on the walk to
Moku'auia or Goat Island. A few more arrived after the photo.

Bill has always wanted to do this since he read about
his grandfather doing it in the late 1890's in his
grandfather's journal. It was low tide when we started,

but it was also quite windy, so we all got pretty wet and
had to fight a few waves to trek the 720 feet.

This is the other side of the island. You can see the temple way
behind us in the background.

Sister Waterfall found a couple of sea cucumbers that we
held for a bit.

Sister Thompson built an elaborate rock shrine.

 A interesting historical tidbit was that a lawyer lived on the
 the island in the mid 1800's with his 2 mistresses. When
the King of Hawaii heard about it he wanted to have him
arrested. After some research the lawyer found
out the island wasn't recorded on the king's maps and so
he declared himself king of the island and remained.
The day was a fun adventure with about 17 missionaries.