Maui Part III

Katie had fun playing in the sand at the beach.



On Thursday we drove up to Kapalua to find the Dragon's teeth. We had to walk across the Kapalua Golf Club where they just had a large televised tournament a few days prior.









The hole is across the water ;).

After stopping there we drove further north and drove the northwest loop. It was even scarier than the road to Hana in some places. The road was very narrow with a lot of sections that only fit one vehicle. And due to the rain, some parts were pretty muddy and some places had fallen rocks in the road. Our first stop was at the Nakalele blow hole. It was a bit hard to get to esp. with my pregnant belly and with Katie, so we just watched it from the road and I took pictures with my telezoom lens.









On Friday we went to Iao State Valley Park. The Iao needle was impressive and pretty but I had expected there to be more and longer walking trails. Still it was nice to walk around and see the views. There weren't as many mosquitoes as I was afraid there would be.







After that stop we drove towards Kula and stopped at the Surfing Goad dairy farm. We already heard from them when we stopped at the Flatbread pizza company a few days ago and had their delicious goat cheese on our pizza. They offered 20-minute tours but charged quite a bit for it so we didn't take the tour. We just saw the goats that were out and bought some goat cheese.







On Saturday we went to Lahaina to see the banyan trees and check out the shops. Apparently they have a Saturday market there as there were a lot of artists out trying to sell their paintings, photos, jewelry and such.





We had lunch at the Aloha Mixed plate.

 

The next day we drove to the Kihei / Wailea area to find a nice beach with no waves to swim. That didn't quite turn out the way we wanted. Each beach had more waves than normal and as such there wasn't really any suitable place to go swimming with Katie. Eventually we went back to the west side of the island and stopped in Kapalua and swam a little bit there. But although it was supposed to be a quiet bay with hardly any waves, it was still pretty wavy. I blame it on the stormy weather we had.



And then it was time to go home. The staff at the Ka'anapali Beach hotel sang us goodbye and gave us each a lei.