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<\/a><\/p>\nShe drove us towards the coast and then down a private unmarked dirt road.. Where we went has to remain a secret.. because local places like this are getting mobbed by tourists (like us) .<\/p>\n
Aside here: \u00a0Its a story we heard from every local we met.. .. Covid was great when the tourists stopped or slowed down.. even witht he impact to the local economy.. it reminded people who live here what it was like \u00a0when the island was their own. Now in the somewhat post-covid era tourism is up over 30% from pre-covid days.. and people tourists are overrunning the island. misusing the resources, not respecting the land or the people. ,Its given us quite a bit to think about..\u00a0 I’ll\u00a0 write about that later..<\/p>\n
We drove down the road a bit and then headed down a trail to a small stream. from there we walked up the stream about 1\/4 mile to an amazing \u00a0waterfall (I apologized pictures of little fuzzy\u2026 The waterproof case I was using really his fogged up the pictures.. Imagine this\u2026 Only 10 times more beautiful \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
We had a good long swim there then we hike back down the stream and climbed up to the road, got in the truck and drove up the road a bit more to a great jumping rock with a nice pool and waterfall. We took turns jumping in. About 15 feet so fun and not too scary.\u2026 ‘Diane has some good movies of us jumping. I’ll try to share those as well.<\/p>\n We jump back in the truck went all the way down to the end of the dirt road past the house Text Caroline rented when she first moved here. Or destination was Caroline’s boyfriend Kaleo’s house. It was such an amazing place.\u2026 Completely off grid. I said buildings right above a beautiful creek with a waterfall a great swimming hole\u2026 The creek then runs straight down to the ocean less than a quarter of a mile downstream. \u00a0 We first met Kaleo’s dad Sven who had been living in Maui for 35 years\u2026 He’s originally from Germany. Super great guy built all of the stuff by hand. I’ll solarelectric all the water everything is completely up coming from their own land. The place is surrounded with fruit trees. Amazing. And we went down to the house\u2026 Well they were actually several houses. There’s a guest house, small “Hale” where Kaleo lived\u2026 I cooking house, a bath house and yard where Kaleo’s parents lived. We then met Laeo’s mom ‘Dana who had been in Maui for more than 20 years. She was originally from upstate New York. Both of his parents are so nice. \u00a0Kaleo showed up just a few minutes after we got there. \u00a0He’s such a great guy.. he grew up in this totally off grid world\u2026 Then recently spent 18 months working in Frankfurt Germany. He’s really smart really nice and very interested in making things. We plan to connect him to our new friend Max in Wailuko who’s a master maker. We then walked a few meters down f to the Stream behind their house. Kaleo, Caroline, Gabe and sam went swimming while ‘Diane, Dana and I watched. It reminded me of something like the swimming holes we have at home like triple buckets those surrounded by tropical plants. Only difference is\u2026 This was in their backyard and there was no one else around\u2026<\/p>\n After a bit\u2026 Kaleo and ‘Dana showed us the way to walk down to the beach. It was a little bit of a slippery scramble over the creek and longer Rockfence but the walk was so beautiful. More swimming pools, natural slides, amazing plants \u00a0and fresh fruit. We found these amazing Liliquoi (Jamaican passionfruit)\u2026 You bite into the thick yellow skin and suck out the delicious juice and seats. I’ve never had anything like it. We stuffed ourselves on them and brought a whole bunch back<\/p>\n In a few minutes we reach the point where the freshwater stream met the ocean. It was a narrow Rocky Harbour with steep walls. The surf was crashing like crazy\u2026 We were surprised to learn that this had once been a shipping port for processed sugar about 100 years ago. It’s hard to imagine any kind of boat getting anywhere near shore with the crashing surf. You could still see some of the hundred year old rusty equipment hanging around.<\/p>\n Diane and I had fun putting 1 foot in the ocean and 1 foot in the freshwater stream\u2026<\/p>\n It was so amazing listening to the surf the rocks on the beach. It made an amazing sound. I recorded some of it click on the thing below and you can hear it<\/p>\n\n<\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n
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