Aloha Hawaii and Mahalo

Mahalo or  thank you to a very special place. Maui is a combination of arid volcanic landscape and lush tropical vegetation. It is spotted with condos and resorts and tourist tat but it is essentially starkly beautiful. The sunsets, the sea and the volcanic rocks have been amazing.

 

This is our last day on Mauii. After a breakfast of bacon and eggs we had a quick dip and the set off to explore. Here we are at Dragon's Teeth at Kapalua. The lava is fine grained and bleached white in some  areas. It flowed during the dying days of the West Mauii  volcano. Spray salt etched the lava into the shapes of dragon's teeth.

Do you see the rock face I am holding on to? 

I wasn't wearing my swimming costume so I couldn't indulge on a swim on our coastal trek but Tom was prepared. He leapt straight into that crystal clear water. Actually he crept down the rocks but others were more adventurous.

They leapt off the rocks.

And then to end our day we visited Lahaina, an old whaling port, and now a tourist heaven. I nearly bought $100.00 of salt  body scrub for no good reason other than the salesperson was glib. Luckily Tom was there. We saw the Banyan tree - a tree over 150 years old that strides a couple of streets and is the oldest Banyan tree in America.

And now we have to say goodbye and fly back home. We could have seen more turtles and we could have relaxed more but what the hell, we had a wonderful time.