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

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

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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Morning friends on the balcony railing.  Just what you get when you throw pieces of bread out on the lawn below….
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Morning views from our room’s balcony across Lahaina Roads….
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Sunrise illuminating the clouds over northwest Maui

Early morning view of Lanai

A cargo vessel headed through Lahaina Roads towards Kahului Harbor

Royal Caribbean Cruise Ship headed to Lahaina to anchor a couple nights

The best view yet of Lanai from our balcony

Still clouds over Molokai, but a better view than we have yet seen.