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Last minute snorkeling, sightseeeing, and shopping.
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 Highlights: Petroglyphs Old and New The Great Conch Hunt Bye Bye Birdie |
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Kaanapali Lahaina Kihei
 Kahului |
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a popular snorkel and dive location. From the beach it didn't look like we'd have
much success, so we continued up to Black Rock
, in front of the Sheraton Maui resort in Kaanapali. This beach
had the easiest access from a gorgeous sandy beach, although the fish population
was not as varied as in some other locations. After a week's worth of snorkeling,
we needed some time to float about in the waves, then just lie on the beach and
soak up the sun.  |
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| Annemarie and I at Black Rock. | Floating away... | A cliff diver lights the torches every night before plunging off Black Rock. |
| Ancient Hawai'ians would cut off the end of a large conch
shell to make a loud trumpet-like instrument. While shopping at the market
in Kihei the day before, I'd seen some for sale and decided I wanted to
get one for a certain trombone player back home. I asked around and heard
that the Saturday market under the Banyan tree (see Page
One for pictures) in Lahaina might have a better selection.
We went to Lahaina but unfortunately there weren't any for sale. We took
the opportunity to walk around the town a bit more and drop by Lahaina harbour. |
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| Annemarie's photo of one of the boats in Lahaina Harbour. |
there were some ancient Hawai'ian
petroglyphs about 1/4 mile walk up a side road. I decided we had enough time to walk there and back and still
get back to Kihei in time to sign out of the condo (there was some disagreement on this point from two other
members of our group). The walk ended up being a little bit longer than that, and it was about 500°
outside at the time so perhaps it wasn't the most prudent, but I jogged ahead along the sandy road and
got a bit of extra time to look at the petroglyphs. Although there were still some of the ancient
petroglyphs of Hawai'ian figures, in more recent times less ancient Hawai'ians and wanna-bes had added
their own "petroglyphs". Still, it was interesting to see a bit of Hawai'i's history etched in stone.
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| Looking up the rock wall to the petroglyphs. |
Close-up showing the variety of designs, and some of the vandalism. |
Some more petroglyphs hiding under an overhang. |
Detail of one of the petroglyphs. |
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| The road to the petroglyphs (located on the left side of the hill in the foreground). | Annemarie treks back to the car in the heat. | Looking towards Kihei from the petroglyph road. |
to pack up our things and check out of
the condo before the given time. I still wanted a conch, though, and we had tried
a few other places with no luck, so it was back to the market in Kihei. I bartered
a bit with the sleazy vendor, then got what I thought would be my best deal, and
we were off. On our way we stopped at Hilo
Hattie, the best place for all things tacky and Hawai'ian, and I took a couple
of quick snaps of a peculiar car I'd already seen twice. We had a few hours before
our plane was due to leave, and there was a bird sanctuary called Kahana Pond
located right by the airport at Kahului .  |
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| This weird little car was always parked in the same place and I'd wanted to stop and take a picture all week. | Cute coots. | The evening sun over Kahana Pond. | |
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| The sun sets over Kahului harbour. | Sunrays streak through the clouds. | One last palm tree. | I try to be artistic with a camera (never a good idea). |
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