Day Twenty-Eight - Farewell

Last night we watched the sun set over the ocean. Today we travelled for 24+ hours to get home. The magic is over this time but we'll be back!

Day Twenty-Five - Mexican

It's a good day when the highlight of the day is going for Mexican food at Fred's Mexican restaurant. LOL. We did go for a quick snorkel in the morning and we took Lisa and Jen to the dumps in the afternoon. As usual the dumps was awesome. I accidentally scared Jessi when I took a leaf from the surface of the water and dropped it to the bottom. When I did this, large black fish thought I was feeding them and started chasing us. Jessi had no idea what was happening and swam for the shore as fast as possible.

Day Twenty-Four - Road to Hana

This morning at 6:00 A.M. Jen, Jessi and I set out for an epic adventure. Our first stop was for cinnamon rolls which made Jen and Jessi hyper and then really tired.

Our first stop was at the Ke'anae peninsula:




Pua'a Ka'a State Park:


Nihiku:


Mongoose:


Black Sand Beach:


Lava tube at black sand beach:


"Swimming" at the Seven Sacred Pools (this was as close as we could get since they had closed the pools due to heavy water flow):


On the road back:

Day Twenty-Three - Final Brunch

Today was our last brunch of the trip. We went back to the Maui Prince and everyone ate themselves silly as usual.

In the afternoon we went back to the dumps with Barry, Richard and Gaby. Jessi and I saw an Eel swimming free and a barracuda.

Day Twenty-Two - Hanging Around

Today we snorkelled at our beach this morning. Barry, Lisa, Jessi and I swam over to the point between Kamaole Beach III (our beach) and Kamaole Beach II where we heard there was good snorkelling to be had. The rumours were true! We saw several turtles and some large blue Ulua.

We bummed around the rest of the day. I got on the computer for some video games (which did not go as succesfully as I would have liked) and Jessi wound up reading. I was jonesing so bad for my video games that we went out and bock Guitar Hero: World Tour for our DS. It's surprisingly fun and fufills my VG itch for now!

Day Twenty-One - Farewell to Laura

Today is Laura's last day. We're sad to see her go but Jessi and I are happy that her and Jeff will be closer (they're moving to Ottawa) so we will see more of them. This morning we enjoyed breakfast at the Grand Wailea hotel. It was very nice and the setting was stunning.

In the afternoon we went to the Dumps. It's a snorkelling spot near Ahihi bay, South of Big Beach. The entry was easy (you could sit on a lava ledge to get in). The snorkelling was amazing! We saw seven turtles. There were so many we thought they would bump into us. We also saw lots of coral, fish and even a little eel.

Day Twenty - Maui Ocean Center

This morning we were treated to an excellent snorkel off of our beach. A huge green seat turtle was grazing on the reef and we watched it for about twenty minutes. Then we saw a starfish scuttling across the sand before getting eaten by a parrot fish. Very eventfull!

In the afternoon Uncle Barry and Auntie Vicki treated Trudi, Riley, Granddad, Jen, Jessi and myself to a trip to the Maui Ocean Center (an aquarium). Jessi and I have gone every time we've come to Maui and I still enjoy visiting it.





Young turtle: