Travel Review: May 14, 2013, Part VI: Torch Lighting, Cliff Diving & Sunset at the Sheraton Maui Resort

Posted on June 7, 2013 by Lance

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Black Rock, the location for Cliff Diving at The Sheraton Maui Resort

Ready

Jump

Splash!

Sheraton Maui Grounds Torch Lighting

Sheraton Maui Torch Lighter and Cliff Diver

Heading across the beach

Climbing up Black Rock

Climbing up Black ROck

Lighting the torches on Black Rock

Torches all lit, time to cliff dive!

Sunset from Kaanapali Beach at the Sheraton Maui Resort

So ends a very busy day on Maui, only one more full day on Maui, as we fly to the Big Island on May 16th…

Travel Review: May 14, 2013, Part V: Banyan Tree Park

Posted on June 7, 2013 by Lance

This sure was a busy day, especially when you consider how it started with the drive down “Maui’s Deadliest Road”. Just two more sections for the day in review, I promise…..

We stopped in downtown Lahaina to take in the expanse of the Banyan Tree Park. This is all one single tree, with multiple trunks and huge, long horizontal branches stretching a hundred feet or more across the park:
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Other sights around Banyan Tree Park
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All sorts of entertainment and events take place under the Banyan Tree

Reconstruction of the old fort corner in Banyan Tree Park

The Wharf Cinema Center: Shopping & Eating, but we never got there. This day, Marianne was just not in a shopping mood, something to do with a road we drove earlier in the day 🙁

Royal Caribbean’s “Rhapsody of the Seas” at anchor off Lahaina

Travel Review: May 14, 2013: Part IV: Wind Surfing at Ho’okipa Beach Park

Posted on June 7, 2013 by Lance

Travel Review, May 14, 2013, Part III: IRT: World’s Deadliest Roads, Maui Edition!

Posted on June 7, 2013 by Lance

Well, this would be the day I decided to drive the Kahekili Highway (Route 340) from Ka’anapali over to Kahului. Marianne was not pleased with the drive, although the sights are dramatic if you can take your eyes off the road while trying to keep on the narrow one-lane highway with two-way traffic.

But, first, we saw the sights along the better parts of the highway on the western edge before it gets narrow:
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Honolua Bay

Honolua Bay, Looking West

Looking East from above Punalau Beach towards Honokohau Bay

Looking west back across Punalau Beach

This road sign, as you climb out of Honolua Bay, just says it all, in a couple miles the one-lane road begins….

Looking towards the Nakalele Blowhole Point across Honokohau Bay

Inactive Nakalele Blowhole, down at the bottom, due to low wave activity…

Looking east from near the Nakalele Blowhole

Headed down the hill ahead, the road closes down to a single lane, with limited passing areas for the next 7-8 miles…

After the road narrowed, Marianne was too terrified and worried about the driving that I had to do to even think about taking pictures. Therefore, I went to Google Earth’s Street View, and captured a few images of the drive down this section of highway. The yellow line is an overlay on the image of the route traveled by the imaging vehicle.

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