Some Maui Photos

Favorite Maui Landscapes

Danjo in Maui

Because I didn't take just my camera, I took my guy...

Danjo waiting for dinner

at

the Sea House

on Napili Bay

(I dare you to find me a better beach anywhere).

It is nearly sunset

(see crab photo in last blog post for dinner aftermath)

To his right is the path

leading down the shoreline to our room

The sea turtles are swimming

around the coral reefs

with the eels and angel fish and lobsters

in the water behind him

but you can't see them

in this photo

but we know they are there

because we did see them

while snorkeling

(which is scary

because you must breathe through a tube

with your face in the water

and can't stand up or touch anything

but fun

because there are sea turtles).

Danjo

exploring the tide pools

(complete with hermit crabs and sea cucumbers and tropical fish)

after breakfast,

at the Gazebo place

down the beach

from our hotel

which has macadamia nut pancakes.

The island in the background

is either

Molokai

or

Lanai

I think.

Well, actually

it is

Lana'i

because I looked it up.

Danjo eating

Aunty Sandy's pineapple

on

the road to Hana.

He liked it better than the passion fruit

(ask him about the passion fruit)

Aunty Sandy

had

decent

banana

bread

also.

But

Grandma Esther's

is better.

Danjo at Nahiku

We watched the ocean there

for a very long time.

You have to drive through

Tarzan's neighborhood

to get there.

Just to Danjo's left are

insane people surfing

(no you can't see them but we could),

or hoping to surf.

We never saw them catch a wave

but the waves were

really wow.

REALLY WOW.

Danjo at Big Beach.

It is a big beach.

It was empty,

possibly because of

the big black cloud

over it

that looked like rain.

It had nice sand.

And a lifeguard.

The Maui beaches are short of lifeguards.

Perhaps the sea turtles will save you

if you

can't swim.

That is all for now.

Revisionist Vacation

We're back home, and I'm back at school, learning how to use Photoshop to make some minor changes to our Maui experience...

"...We were watching this sunset at the beach while eating dinner at this great open-air restaurant, and all of the sudden, this giant hermit crab came crawling out of the ocean and onto the sand, just a few feet from where we were sitting! People started screaming and running. Food was flying everywhere. It grabbed our waiter and crushed him with it's claw. The just-lit tiki torches fell over and the restaurant began to burn. I grabbed my camera as Danjo downed the last of his Mahi Mahi. As we ran down the beach path towards our room and away from the chaos, Danjo exclaimed, 'I sure don't remember seeing that while we were snorkeling!' I stopped and looked back. 'Wait!' I cried. Doesn't it look just like the one we had in our hand at the tide pools this morning?' Danjo turned white as a ghost. 'If that's the same one, it could be after us,' he whispered. As one, we turned and fled for the car..."

Yesterday

We drove the Hawaii equivalent of the PCH on steroids--one lane, the best part paved like mom and dad's driveway. It's like driving to heaven and back on the road from hell. Voltaire had Hana in mind when he sent Candide to El Dorado. He had Hana in mind when he had Candide and Co. leave El Dorado with sheep loaded with gold and end up home emptyhanded, to tend their little garden. It was a perfect activity for Sunday.

And I took a photo for you. Just one. It's cows. There's lots of pictures of Maui beaches on the internet, but you may not fully appreciate the Maui cows:

How you know you have come to the right place...