Maui in April: part V

Apologies for the break...just returning home from adventures which will certainly take up several future posts. For now, here's more on Maui.

We returned to Kihei cove, where Todd and I caught some more waves. Todd's beginner's luck proved to be more than beginner's luck! For some reason, this go around I had my timing all messed up, so Jeremy had to come out to coach me. Wah. It was still fun. I guess I just need to get out more.



We put Finn on the board again, but he was a little irritated by it and just wanted to play and throw rocks in the water.


This day we had planned to be gone all day, on the drive to Hana and then enjoying Hana itself. We needed Finn to nap in the car. We were thrilled when he zonked out almost immediately after leaving Kihei Cove.

Then he woke up 25 min later because it took us longer to get on the highway than expected, or just because he's a stinker. Well, then at that point grandma and grandpa were in our car with us and there was no way he was passing up time to play with them to go back to sleep!
We made a few stops along the drive to Hana, the first being Ho'okipa lookout. We watched the throngs of surfers out there and Jeremy made plans to switch the board out and try that spot the next day. He had remembered it to be a favorite from our last trip to Maui.

Our next stop was a very unassuming and hidden trail out to this amazing waterfall.



We went on a mini caving adventure through a lava tube, which emerged into a mess of mangrove roots. It was a pretty cool little adventure. Glenn used his camera flash as a flashlight. It cracked us up when later we were looking through his photos and found a plethora of photos of blurry rock and root.



By the time we got to Hana, Finn had the inevitable desperate-for-sleep meltdown I was expecting. We pulled over eventually he calmed and fell asleep, even allowing transfer back into the carseat so we could head to the black sand beach. We took turns waiting in the car with him so we could both enjoy it.


I think the red sand beach in Hana is just about the prettiest place in Maui. Love the views during the hike there. The sun wasn't shining by the time we made it there, so the colors weren't quite as brilliant, but it still did me good.






Finn likes a natural bidet.

If you have a propensity for motion sickness, I strongly advise you to make the drive to Hana in the daylight, both ways. Our drive back in the dark on the curviest road of all time really did me in. I may have traumatized our nephew as he witnessed my road/carside spewing.