This was my very first ATV ride, and the first for my husband after many years. This was our fifth trip to Hawaii, and my first time to have ANYTHING to post to any "comment site"!
We chose the 2-hour ATV tour. The first 45 minutes of our pre-tour afternoon was with Tony, our driver, who described all of the sites between Waikiki and the Ranch as he drove us to the northern reaches of Oahu... great guide with a true love for the Hawaiian culture, language, geography and history. Tony was a wealth of general and detailed information... we learned a lot and took some great "from the van" pictures. (Tony was there at the end of our adventure as well!)
Israel (a local kid who took to the Ranch about 6 months ago) took us on the most awesome 2-hour ATV tour of the valley and hillsides... selecting guava fruit from the local trees, husking a wild coconut : ) for us to drink and taste, taking us along a path that included many wild pigs, and pointing out the locations for the filming of Pearl Harbor, Jurassic Park and 50 First Dates -- incredible!!! The views were spectacular and the "feeling" was... well, there are few words that can describe it! The last part of our ATV tour was through "the maze" where I learned to control the machine that I drove and had an absolute BLAST doing that!!! I was hot and FILTHY at the end of the ride -- and smiling ear-to-ear!!!
Tony was there to take us back to Waikiki via the Pali Highway where we continued our adventure with yet another perspective on the beautiful island of Oahu (there is no other). Tony, again, was an awesome guide -- full of information and details about the island.
Our reservation at the Ranch for the ATV tour will be the FIRST activity that we plan the next time we are blessed with a trip to the islands. Mahalo to all of the team at Kualoa Ranch and to the Morgan family who make it all possible!!!! : ) and Mahalo to the riders before us who took the time to write comments in this space...