Our last Maui sunset had just gone down.
We were taking a self portrait, when a passing couple asked if they could assist.
Of Course!
I believe we look very content and happy.
The weather had been beautiful all week. We saw most of what was on our have-to-see list. We enjoyed some delicious meals and the company of new friends.
Karen said later today, it’s going to be really hard to head back home and back to work.
Yes, but it was really worth the effort to carve these two weeks out for us. =)
Surfer dude, hanging ten.
There were about 30 surfers waiting out the waves in this location.
I had fun picking them out with my Pentax 50-135mm lens. I wish I had brought my Tamron 70-300, but I had to pick and choose what I brought on the trip.
The waves were nice - I have no idea about surfing, but it seemed to be challenging without being dangerous.
There were several kite surfers out there, but they were too far from my vantage point.
Looks like fun!
On the road to Hana.
There’s a nifty guide book called Maui Revealed, which pointed us to several wonders of Nature which we would have otherwise not discovered. This is one of them.
Down a small, winding 2.5 road, there is this public park with pounding surf as the star attraction. What we had seen from high above, suddenly is shaking the earth beneath us with crashing waves against lava rock.
Karen has the giddy smile, while I am concentrating on getting a good angle for the portrait. Pity, as I was just as giddy inside, before and after the photo. =)
We drove from Lahaina around the far Western portion of Maui to Wailukui today. I knew that some of this road was one lane, but I wasn’t prepared for how narrow that one lane was, and how terrifying the drop-offs were to thousands of feet below with no guard-rails for much of the road.
In these photos, you get a small taste of how narrow it was, but believe me, we were both to scared to much more than hold on and hope for now oncoming traffic in the scariest portions. Not a thought to use the camera!
This is the Nakelele Blowhole. The big waves on a windy day were pushing the blowhole to great heights. A wonder to behold.
We drove from Lahaina around the far Western portion of Maui to Wailukui today. I knew that some of this road was one lane, but I wasn’t prepared for how narrow that one lane was, and how terrifying the drop-offs were to thousands of feet below with no guard-rails for much of the road.
In these photos, you get a small taste of how narrow it was, but believe me, we were both to scared to much more than hold on and hope for now oncoming traffic in the scariest portions. Not a thought to use the camera!
We’re 5 steps from a shear cliff in this one. Yikes!
Good Morning Sunshine! The Earth says Hello!
Well worth the time to get up at 2AM and travel 2+ hours to get to see this, Nature’s beauty from above the clouds.
At 10,000 feet high, the air was thin, but our spirits were filled with wonder.
We woke up at 2AM to get to the top of Mount Haleakala before sunrise.
The things we do while on vacation. =)
The winding, twisty road, goes about 40 miles, but takes over 2 hours to navigate, there’s so many hairpin turns. Once in the National Park, the guardrails disappear too. We didn’t notice how scary that was until we came back down!
The temperature at the summit was 48F with a 25 mph wind - chilly. Hence, the blankets. We both work many layers of clothing and as a result were fairly warm except for our hands.
A fellow traveller, and there were about 100 of us up there by sunrise, took this in exchange for us doing them the same favor. Easy enough to do. That’s the shadow of the mountain behind us, covering West Maui.
When we arrived at the summit, the sky was magnificent. Not a cloud to be seen (we were above them!), and the galaxy spread for our delight.
Well worth the effort. Highly recommended travel treat.