Maui Pictures

Here are some photos from our trip. On the left is a sunset from our hotel at Kaanapali.



The photo on the right was taken at the Lahaina Harbor. Last Halloween, some dude got his sailboat too close to the shallows there and got stuck. He couldn't afford to get it pulled out, so there it sits.


This is a photo of Linda on the summit of Haleakala, a dormant volcano on Maui (elevation 10,023 feet) -- she's pointing to Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa across the channel on the Big Island. Haleakala is allegedly rumbling back to life and may erupt in a few years.


This is a photo of Kapalua Bay, which turned out to be a great place to snorkel as well as a pretty nice beach on which to hang out (the sand at Kaanapali Beach was softer, though).

On the left are dive boats off of Molokini (West Maui is behind them). Although the water was very clear there, I thought that Black Rock and Kapalua Bay offered better overall snorkeling experiences (more varieties of fish and more interesting underwater terrain).

This is a picture of some of the handiwork at the Festival of Canoes in Lahaina (which is held every year there under the world's largest Banyan tree). Canoe carvers from all over the Pacific show up there for two weeks every May, carve their canoes, then launch them at the end of the festival. It was very cool.

I'll post some more pictures later, including some underwater shots we took while snorkeling.