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We came back from Kauai to Oahu after 6 days' peaceful time.
Suddenly we were thrown into a frenzy status of traffic with too many busy people.
People got less friendly and more aloof.
Our 5 days' home was very close to where we stayed in 2016.
But a little more convenient location than before.
I was amazed with my memory which was stored deep inside without realizing it.
Suze was busy with her water activities with her friends the whole time.
But one day she made time to do a seemingly easy hike with us to Pillbox near Lanikai Beach.
Our plan was to do this easy hike quickly and then jump into the Ocean.
And then lunch!
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As we expected the sun was extremely hot already when we started walking.
It was a fairly short and easy hike but with the high temperature and humidity
we felt unbearably uncomfortable.
Most people came up to these two pill boxes hurriedly and then went back down
on the same way.
Suze said she did another circuit hike going down on the other side.
We liked this idea.
Even though this heat made us feel already suffocated it was too short a hike for our standard.
No one else attempted to try the trail we went.
The beach and beautiful coastline from the top that day was breathtaking.
Eddie said he looked photos of where we were that day later on line
but he couldn't find that day's exact image on many people's photos.
Except in his photos and our memories.
Eddie typically was tranced into a mode he couldn't help himself admiring and
contiuously taking photos non-stop there.
Anyway we finally had done all the photo takings and admirations and walked
on the dry open track away from people.
Very confidently and somewhat proudly.
Without knowing what would wait for us in the end!!!!!
Soon I felt dizzy and weak from this constant heat and humidity.
It was the most strongest and dangerous time of UV exposure too.
There was no shade at all in this track the whole time.
We thought we would find a way down into the beach in no time
but this undulating track kept on running away from us up and down endlessly.
Later on we realized we walked too fast and missed it.
Obliviously we were puzzled after a couple of hours walking under the impossibly unbearable
heat and still stuck in the track.
Finally we were on top of a small hill overlooking a facility on your right hand side
which looked like a golf course or a kind of resort to me.
I could glimpse a few houses further down on the rapid slant at left hand side
which allowed no way to access from there.
I told Eddie we could climb down to this place from where we could walk into a way
to Lanikai Beach at left hand side.
Suze was strongly against it but for some stupid reason I didn't want to go back into this tidious
horrible dry track stubbornly.
Also it's our experience that we walked through many parts where there was no actual track in the bush.
I should have known better.
It's not in the Australian wilderness where we could find a way in the middle of deep bush.
Not in the US soil.
I don't know why Eddie followed me that day.
He should have been wiser than me.
We ignored Suze and adamantly started scrambling down into too dense and tough shrubs
which scrached and hurt our exposed skins on arms and legs.
Eddie said he might have had a wasp sting in the middle of dense shrubs.
I concentrated on climbing down and couldn't afford to reply.
Finally after seemingly forever we reached at the lower part of slant where there were a bit of gaps
among lowly grown dry trees which made us squeeze in and passed a little easier.
We at last were able to land at the territory of an unknown facility.
A dog started barking like a bad omen when we reached there.
We slowly walked a few metres to the bench near the seashore across the grass field.
I had noticed an elderly couple who were at the next bench looked at us a little inquisitively
but they were gone soon.
Eddie admired the scenery and I rested a while to cool down sweats.
It was a pradise itself.
A little later we regained our senses and started worried about Suze.
She suddenly appeard up on the hill yelling at us.
Mum!!!
Dad!!!
We yelled back at her!!!
Come down!
She said she couldn't!
I saw her running on the rigde of the hill from end to end crazily.
We tried to figure out by walking parallell with her to decide which part she could climb down
better.
Suddenly one lady appeared from no where to talk to us.
It turned out that the facility was an airforce station.
Not a golf course nor a resort.
It situated isolated from everywhere.
Of course we couldn't access to Lanikai as beaches or shores didn't connect and
it got far away from where we parked our car on the road as well.
Soon a military police car arrived to question us!!!
I told them what happened.
We simply got lost and didn't know where we were.
I showed them our passports and waited patiently.
They spoke to the commander over the radio or phone.
They were very polite and smiling the whole time but later Suze
told me she was scared and worried about us.
It's not that I was worried but I asked myself in my mind why I brought ourselves into this situation
stupidly.
Previously they told me there were three options.
One
go back on the way which I hated the most but seemed the best option.
Two
call the uber and go back the long way to where we parked
and then we met Suze.
Three
they would escort us in their car .
I had millions of regrets and I didn't understand why I didn't go back to try
to look for the normal track when I could.
If only I knew then.
As soon as I got our passports back and they granted our first and best option
we climbed back the way we came down
like two agile squirrels or two Usain Bolts.
It took a nano sppeed feeling eyes of these two young military police men on us.
(They must have laughed I'm sure.)
On the way up Eddie mentioned wasp sting again but I ignored him.
Finally we reached on top and saw the police car slowly drive out of where we were.
It was easy to detect a prorper track this time.
We finally reached near where we were supposed to be after longer hours of hassels.
We were beyond thirst and hunger.
We were worried about Eddie's wasp sting on his hand and gave him a tablet of antihistamine.
He didn't want to go see a doctor even though we asked him to do.
His serious looking wasp sting on his hand and Suze's serious sunburn that day made me feel guilty
and horrified.
Later in the middle of night I woke up with extreme discomfort and pain.
I realized I was bitten by wasp more seriously on my arms and back.
It was crazily swollen into big red spots and itchy I couldn't sleep at all.
I was shocked and worried but after a couple of days it got better.
I put on an ointment to alleviate pains and itchiness.
It could have been worse.
In hindsight I realized I took an antihistamine tablet on the day as I had a severe hay fever.
Which must have been helpful to that.
What a stupid event I made it happen!
Everything was ok after all but I couldn't console myself with my favorite phrase this time,
all's well that ends well.
However I learned my lesson for sure.