Maui coastal shots

Looking back near four months now I cannot recall what we did of note for the three days after we connected with my cousin during our first full day on Maui. Only two salient things leap to mind: hanging at the nearest pool on the second day and driving the north coast a bit on the fourth. It seems as if we must have done something else…didn’t we? Our fourth day also represented our final full day on the western end of Maui. We had been told the natives didn’t really like tourists going up along the north shore, but we took a ‘chance’ and except for a bit of display for what I think represented a Hawai’i Separatist Movement we experienced no animosity. We certainly saw spectacular scenery as the road dove to near sea-level and then ascended to the tops of cliffs.

Our rental car, the ocean, and a spectacular sky above. Molokai in the distance. September 2024.
Once upon a time I might have tried snorkeling but not now, and certainly not in this partially protected bay. (Little dots are people snorkeling.) September 2024.
Unfortunately for my pictorial record, few pull-offs existed. At this one you can see a good representation of the north coast. The hill in the background has an incline in it as the road we’re on continues. We drove down to near-sea level in the bay out of the photo to the right. September 2024.

By my estimation I took around 100 photos of the coast and/or sunrises/sunsets while we lingered on Kapalua Bay. Dawn would start with the low-contrast promise of sun:

Pre-dawn, last morning on Kapalua Bay. Molokai to the left. September 2024.

And sometimes not so low-contrast…

This photo taken 20 minutes prior to the above it. Maui, September 2024.

I guess most of the time we stared at sunrises in the morning, sunsets in the evening and in between we ate and stared at stuff like this…

Breakers just beyond our shore, nearing sunset. Kapalua Bay, Maui, September 2024.

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