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15 May 2009 2 Comments
Note to self: never book a flight during the time you should be sleeping, because you will not get any sleep on the flight. Especially if the person sitting next to you is snoring and stretched out into your seat.
The trip to Maui was awesome. We didn’t do a lot, other than spending almost every day at the beach and going to the summit of Haleakala for the sunrise. That was surreal: the 10,000 foot ascent took 38 miles of winding road. (I say this like it means anything to me: I can never remember how many miles are in a kilometer, although Google assures me that there are 1.6 kilometers in a mile). Once we got up above the clouds the full moon shone down on them, making it feel like we were on another planet. I wish we had the right camera equipment to photograph what it was like. It was also below freezing with the windchill at the summit.
We spent most of our time in west Maui, mostly at DT Fleming Beach. We also went to Ka’anapali Beach, Napili Bay, Ironwood Beach (we saw Honu there!), Baby Beach, and Honolua Bay on the west side.
We did a day trip to Kikei and saw Big Beach/Makena Bay and La Perouse Bay/Ahihi-Kina’u Natural Area Preserve.
On our last day we went to the ‘ Iao Needle in Wailuku, the north shore to see Pa’ia and Hookipa Beach, and watched windsurfers, kiteboarders, and dragonboaters at Airport Beach in Kahului.
As we expected, it was a very different experience than Moloka’i. On Moloka’i you could forget that you are in the US. There aren’t any franchised stores or restaurants. Maui seems a lot more…American, although Hawai’i seems different than other places in America that I’ve visited.It’s hard to explain.
The beaches on Maui were a lot nicer for swimming than the beaches on Moloka’i, although never deserted. We avoided any “tourist trap” type places and still there was a lot to do and see.
Pictures are coming.
