We arrived on Maui early afternoon on the 20th and spent 5 nights there at the Westin on Kaanapali Beach. It rained a couple of the days, which kept us indoors shopping and going to the Maui Ocean Center (aquarium), but we still had a great time while we were there, and we didn't want to leave to come back home.
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| Looking out from a look-out (a good thing to do when at a look-out) over Maalea Bay with part of Maui sticking out on the left, Molokini in the center and Kaho'olawe on the right. |
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| From the same location, but looking across toward Kihei. |
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One night we ate at Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. -- a place with a fun atmosphere
and fantastic shrimp....and cocktails. Cheryl... |
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...and me. If you need service, just flip over the sign to get one of the waiters to stop. |
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| In Lahaina, there's a HUGE banyon tree. This is cheryl and I in between some of the tree's drop-down roots. |
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| Cheryl, sitting on one of the branches |
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| Me sitting on one of the tree's many "trunks"...sort of...I guess they're really roots, with the trunk being what is at the center of the picture above. |
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| My sister Adrienne (who lives on Maui) with Cheryl one night, out at Hapa's bar where the radio station she works for sponsors a concert (Willie K.) every Monday night. |
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| Cheryl and me in our "Just Mauied" T-Shirts. |
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| A view from a pizza place of Lahaina;s harbor area. |
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| Cheryl waiting for our pizza. |
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| A bird waiting for our pizza. |
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| Cheryl eating her pizza before the bird can get it. |
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| A whale! Okay, so it's not exactly close-up like we lucked into on Kauai, but it's still pretty cool. This was just a little ways off-shore just south of Lahaina. We noticed it as we were driving along. |
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| Looking across to Lanai at sunset, from inside Bubba Gump's in Lahaina... |
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| ...and again... |
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| ...and again. |
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| Us, again, at Bubba Gump's. Yes, we really liked the food! |
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| The road that leads toward Kihea, Pi'ilani Highway, passes through a nature preserve. I found this sign sort of humorous -- as if the birds could read. |
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| Hmmm....where is this? I'm pretty sure this is Makena, but it might be part way between Wailea and Makena. |
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| The road ends a little south of Makena. At that point, you're pretty much in the middle of a huge ancient lava flow. |
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| Cheryl... |
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| ...and me. (But then, you probably had that much figured out.) |
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| Westin was gracious enough to give us a free upgrade to an ocean-view room because we were honeymooners. This is the view from the room. |
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| Cheryl, out on our balcony. |
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| Cheryl on our sofa. |
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| Cheryl on the beach. |
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| Cheryl...er...um...no, not this time. Flamingos in the pond located in the Westin's lobby. |
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| More of the pond and and of the waterfalls. |
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| Cheryl feeding a goose. |
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| Cheryl standing next to a waterfall |
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| Cheryl going behind the waterfall. |
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| Cheryl walking away from the waterfall. |
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| One of the parrots in the lobby area. |
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| Two more of them. |
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| The cockatoo... |
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| And more of the pond, looking toward the pool. |
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| Me, sliding down into the pool. |
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| Cheryl, after she slid down into the pool, losing her bracelet...but that's okay, it was "free" with the purchase of some t-shirts. |
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| Just some people -- some on mini surf boards -- a short stroll down Kaanapali beach from our hotel. |
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| Cheryl wondering why I was falling behind. (Because I paused to take a picture of her.) |
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| Looking toward Lanai in the distance. |
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| Looking toward the mountains |
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| Looking toward the Frank |
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| We had dinner one evening at The Plantation House, up in Napili. |
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One of the couple rainy days we had, we drove around the north end of the
island. We stopped for breakfast at a this little restaurant called "The Gazebo", where we saw this rainbow. |
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| The road around the north end shows some pretty cool cliffs. |
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| Here, the road is two-lanes, but eventually it becomes one-lane with very few places to pull over to let oncoming cars pass. |
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| This is a tiny little town called Honokohau....I think. Or maybe it's Honolua. |
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| After coming around the north end on that rainy day, we then stopped at the Iao Valley State Park. These falls are seen from the parking area. |
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| This is looking up at the Iao "needle", from the parking area. |
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| This is Cheryl not happy about it being such a rainy day...in the parking area. |
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| Glad to get out and stretch his legs after driving around the north end of the island, this is me...in the parking area. |
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| The Iao needle from a little closer....but with its top hidden in a cloud. |
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| The clouds thinned enough to see the top of the needle...briefly...and then we left. |
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| Next stop on the rainy day: Haleakala. It was a long, slow, rainy ride up to the top, but once we got there it wasn't very rainy because we were above most of the clouds...but Cheryl was still thinking..."Hey, where's the sunny beach!" |
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| Me, with the clouds below me. |
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| A little information about the "silversword" -- a flower that grows for years, then blooms once and dies. |
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| Me, next to some of the silverswords. |
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| A close-up of one of them. |
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| This is what they look like after they boom and die. |
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| Cheryl, growing out of the top of one. (Okay, not really.) |
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| Haleakala's crater. Pretty cool, eh? It looks like the surface of Mars. |
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| A wide-angle view of it. |
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| Cheryl, still not thrilled to be there, but thinking the crater looks pretty cool. |
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| Me, and a few more shots of different areas of the crater. |
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On the other rainy day, we went to the Maui Ocean Center. Okay, what the heck is this? It looks like a cartoon fish with a human face...but it's real. |
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| These two pictures are of the same fish. One, what it would look like under water without much light, and one with a flash....both blending into the rock & coral it sits around on. |
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| All kinds of stuff! |
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| Me. |
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| A crab. |
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| A fish. |
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| A diver...and a bunch of sharks! |
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| A sting-ray. |
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| The view from my sister Adrienne's street. |
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| Their dragster, covered in sheets, because it's "skin" is off (they were doing some work to it -- adding a nitrous-oxide kit to it, I think.) |
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| Adrienne, her boyfriend, Beeze, Cheryl and I after a quick lunch before we headed to the airport to return back home. |
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| At the airport, the sunset reflecting off the clouds. |
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