Thursday night – Waihe’e Ridge Trail

Diane and I woke early and took a beautiful almost  4 mile walk on the beach ..  wonderful way to start the day.  the day was open. We all headed down to Makenna beach  which is a little south from here.. beautiful and not too crowded.. it’s below all the hotels.. so it backed up to beautiful forest and cliffs..

.. Sammantha, who has been a great source of “what to do next” ,… suggested the Waihe’e Ridge Trail. .. we stopped for snacks including gummy sushi !

Waihe’e Ridge Trail. . turned out to be an amazing walk up in the mountains.. .  cool and cloudy .

The trail closed at seven so we had to really hustle to avoid being locked in for the night.… Turns out that we made the up and back of the 4 mile trail in an hour or less than the average time.… Makes me really wonder what average means ?!

We ended the day with a wonderful fish meal at the. Paia fish restaurant in Kihea

Slept great with all that exercise

nite all, nite sam

-me

Wednesday night – to the lighthouse

Another day in paradise !.

Gabe and Sam rented scooters and drove around Kihei while ‘Diane and I drove as far south as we could to walk on the lava flows below Makenna beach.… The lava had last float here in the late 1700s… But it look like it had just happened. It was a mars like landscape of big and small volcanic rock that went right to the sea. We thought about  taking the two mile hike on the kings highway to a secluded beach.. but the 2 mile walk on sharp rocks in the blazing heat persuaded us to take the shorter walk to the  automated lighthouse instead

Around 4 we met up with Gabe and Sam and cleaned up. We then I’ll drove up to Lahaina (which is about an hour) to go to a luau. It was a big fancy deal and so much fun.… There was great live music amazing dance and the people deserve that was so funny and kind. The food was great… For the most part pretty simple. Lots of different ways of cooking taro and fish.. Super interesting and delicious.… I can’t say enough how much the hula shows which could’ve been really catchy actually work very well done. You can tell us a thriving are lots of storytelling. These folks compete in worldwide advance and the range and scale was just amazing

long and fun day

nite all, nite sam

-me

Tuesday night – Iao

Today was nice and quite.. In the afternoon we drove up to Iao in the high part of the island. It was about 15 degrees cooler and very lush up there.. only about 10 miles from the beach.


Gabe and Sam headed out for Hawaiian Barbecue. while Diane and I headed back to our favorite fish place..

We are loving this place !

nite all, nite sam

-me

Monday night – Molokini

This morning we took a snorkeling trip to Molokini.. a tiny crater just off the coast of maui which has wonderful snorkeling. . we went with a company that took about 30 folks at a time on a very fast power boat. It was such an awesome trip !

 

It was such a fantastic trip.  Lots of colorful fish, sea turtles, coral.. Snorkling is hard work.. we stopped at 4 places….    once inside the crate.. which was nice and shallow.. then on the outside where it was 100’s of feet deep with a huge swell.. Then a couple places on shore to see turtles..  Gabe has great underwater pics on his go pro.. I’ll add them into the blog somewhere

We were happy and tired by the end of the trip.. We went home, showered.. and headed north to explore Lahaina on the north west coast.

We stopped at a great Poke place on the way up.. then walked around Lahaina.

Diane and I were there for our Honeymoon in Sept of 1986 !. I will share some pictures of that too when I find them.

Lahaina was cute.. and crowded.. glad we’re staying out of the crowds down in Kihea.

 

noite all, nite sam

-me