VISITED AUGUST 2017
The ALOHA SURF HOSTEL gals acquire artistic at the OLIVINE POOLS
To brand your utilisation of this page perchance easier, at that spot are 8 places below:
DT FLEMING BEACH (25% downward page)
HONOLUA BAY (20%.down page),
LAHAINA (45%)
NAKALELA BLOWHOLE (5%)
NAPILI BEACH (30%)
OVILINE POOLS (10)
PAI'A (65)
WAIHEE RIDGE TRAIL (80).
The affair virtually MAUI is at that spot is SO much to view - I was at that spot for over 3 weeks, went somewhere interesting every 24-hour interval - but STILL DIDN'T SEE EVERYTHING WORTH SEEING. Maybe next visit.
On other pages of this weblog you lot volition discovery materials virtually what is regarded as the BIG TIME MAUI MUST SEES - good most of them.
Even though IMHO, no house is a MUST view the next are what I regard as SHOULD SEES (if you lot receive got the time).
THE NORTH WEST CORNER
The NORTH WEST CORNER of MAUI has a bunch of attractions - inward a higher house are the ones I made.
For perspective it is exactly over 11km /7mi betwixt the western most together with eastern most house markers inward a direct line (22km/14mi past times road). NAPILI BEACH is virtually 10km/6mi past times route due north of tourist-central KA'ANAPALI BEACH.
Place names volition live on clearer if you lot click-expand. Sorry abt the spelling of NAKALELE at top.
NAKALELE BLOWHOLE....
....starting at the northern most point....
Here's the affair - blowholes demand the right conditions (I live on 200m from ane inward Oz - every fourth dimension it blows the front end door-knocker ...um...knocks). Needed are high tide together with a adept sea swell. I'll leave of absence you lot to speculate the initial conditions when my ALOHA SURF HOSTEL'S gratis trip called by.
WHY information technology PAYS TO WAIT
These are to a greater extent than similar it. Worth waiting 10 minutes for some larger swell although online pics demo much amend blows.
It's a 10 infinitesimal scramble downward from the master copy route automobile green - but solely the mobility impaired should receive got difficulty (although my circumferentially enhanced pal SLIM SAM, the solely someone notwithstanding live on who has completely surrounded a DOMINO'S 18'' SOUTH SEA SUPREME inward nether xx seconds, volition demand a span of ease stops).
The stone platform around the blowhole has a moonscape appearance.
Can't say I'm whelmed past times the latest semi G-string swimsuit tendency - takes a svelte derriere to cutting it, something which most electrical flow immature ladies who are worshipers of KRISPY KREME, RONALD MCDONALD together with KIM KARDASHION can't do.
OH MAMA!
How's that former query go? "DOES MY ASS LOOK BIG IN THIS?"
Well YES but it certain DON'T LOOK GOOD.
And I don't fifty-fifty desire to intend virtually the dopey (maybe HILARIOUS is a amend word) tan lines.
Excuse me for beingness so outspoken on this, but DUMB FASHION summation things similar as nonsensical NEOCLASSICAL ECONOMICS together with THE CARGO CULT MENTALITY OF MODERN CONSUMERS/VOTERS are subjects that genuinely acquire me going. I'll receive got to start a BLOG.
From halfway dorsum to the NAKALELE BLOWHOLE parking area
This is a pretty rugged department of coast. Although the sea was non as good bad when I called by, lotsa notices warn of DANGER: LOST LIVES DUE TO ROGUE WAVES (this is the affair virtually large swell - you lot intend you lot are inward a rubber spot together with every at nowadays together with so a huge ane comes thru together with washes you lot off the stone platform. Don't inquire how I know this).
It's 600m inward a direct line betwixt the CAR PARK together with BLOWHOLE house markers.
The automobile green at left is at the 39.5 mile - marker. Labels may live on clearer if you lot click-expand image.
OLIVINE POOLS
Head some other four miles due east along twisting hwy 340 to mileage marking xvi (they are counting from a different management here) to attain the high roadside parking surface area of the OLIVINE POOLS alongside a similar hike downward a rugged rocky path to the to a span of those tidal pools mutual to lava-formed seaside stone platforms.
Similar trek inward length together with difficulty to that at NAKALELA
The POOLS surface area has a WORSE tape of drownings than NAKALELE, so accept care. Once again, conditions were benign for our visit.
These PANORAMA shots click-expand nicely.
I was expecting ALOHA SURF HOSTEL to live on packed alongside surfer-dudes, but instead it was running 80% female (in summertime at to the lowest degree - maybe the surfers appear for the large wintertime swells) - most French Canadian or Aussie. As a 72 yo dude, I didn't mind.
The rock-jumping was from no-where close the summit of the HANA ROAD waterfalls, but in ane lawsuit again....
.....with an emotional historic catamenia of 11, I exactly had to give OLIVINE POOLS a go.
With the sea relatively calm, I also tried some sea swimming (I surfed for over thirty years, non really well, together with to a greater extent than often than non earlier adept leg ropes - consequently got plenty of do swimming inward large nasty seas - chasing my board).
Above was fine, but the haul upwards the abrupt rocks was a tad difficult. Not recommended.
Back to the parking surface area at the OVILINE POOLS is a adept workout.
The OVILINE POOLS are virtually 450m downward from the HWY 340 parking area.
HONOLUA BAY
From the northern most NAKALELE BLOWHOLE caput WEST along the coastal hwy abt 10km/6mi to the foremost of ii small gully-located roadside parking areas for this dandy place. Somewhere along the coastal route it turns from HWY 340 to HWY thirty - you lot are looking for mileage marking 32.
I've already dealt alongside HONOLUA on my BEST BEACHES page - gave it the honor for BEST BEACH HINTERLAND together with an also cite inward the BEST SURFING BEACH together with BEST SNORKELLING sections. Click to at that spot for to a greater extent than info....
.....but this is a pic I didn't show....
....and I didn't modify a GOOGLE MAP of the place. Note those 2 PARKING spots are pretty express capacity wise - you lot tin also green upwards at the higher VIEWPOINTS together with walk to the rocky beach.
D T FLEMING BEACH PARK
I wasn't whelmed past times D T FLEMING - it didn't brand my listing of BEST BEACHES past times a long shot. Main occupation I had was alongside its ORIENTATION - as you lot tin view below it faces largely due north dissimilar most westward coast beaches, has pathetic headland protection on its due east side together with is so to a greater extent than exposed to the blustery NORTH EAST TRADES which blow on MAUI 95% of the time. This exposure leads to choppy seas together with some sand blowing around on the beach. Not to cite bigger surf on those rare days when swell from a NORTH PACIFIC STORM arrives.
Big surf is adept for surfer dudes but for normal holidaymakers it tin create unsafe waves together with rip currents.
On other days when the NORTH PACIFIC STORM SWELLS are non ariving but when the north-easterly trades are blowier than normal you lot volition acquire to a greater extent than sea swell hitting this exposed beach.
D T FLEMING is solely 2.4km/1.5mi S westward of HONOLUA BAY. Look for the plough inward at mileage marking 31.1 on HWY 30.
A summation is that this is a bigger than normal beach for this piece of work of MAUI - 450m long together with plenty broad fifty-fifty at the top of the tide (at leadt 35m). Also vegetation inward dorsum of the beach gives shaded sand areas inward some spots. I noticed as good when I moved dorsum at that spot that the air current seemed less blustery.
Note the LIFEGUARD TOWER mid beach (better seen if click expanded) - at that spot are alter sheds/showers close the parking surface area behind this - non to cite picnic tables, bbq grills together with fifty-fifty a burger concession.
Not really crowded on this squeamish mid-week AUGUST 24-hour interval but I receive got heard things tin acquire busy on a weekend.
Note the chopped upwards H2O inward the bay. But surf swell was pretty benign the 24-hour interval I visited.
The ALOHA HOSTEL GANG accept upwards spot on the sand. This was a sort of dumb location suggested past times our tour leader - I thought the department upwards side past times side the eastern headland (see shot inward a higher house this - far end) would live on much to a greater extent than sheltered from the air current - but inward a higher house was a shorter walk from the parking surface area summation our leader had his paw pike together with wanted to snorkel the western headland mid-left background. He didn't acquire whatever fish but reported okay fringing coral together with plenty of smaller piscene. No swimming turtles which are non unknown here.
Note lotsa palm needles together with twigs towards the dorsum of the beach. Suggests deport upon of wind.
That's MOLOKA'I island inward background.
Body-boarding kids waiting for the large shore break. One study I read talked virtually dandy body-surfing waves at this beach. Um, non this 24-hour interval dudes.
I had a swim - off the sand the bottom shelved gently together with on this fairly benign 24-hour interval swell-wise (chop is non swell - sea nerds telephone telephone chop "SEAS": so weather condition reports often cite "2ft SEAS on a 5ft SWELL" etc. Good fun when they are coming from different directions (chop is caused past times local winds - swell past times to a greater extent than distant [often storm] winds). In the inward a higher house shot I reckon nosotros receive got "1ft SEAS on a 1ft SWELL") but swimming is non much fun on choppy days - plough the caput to breath together with acquire a oral fissure total of water. As mentioned I didn't discovery whatever rip currents. There is likely a mild ane along that far headland inward the shot inward a higher house this (maybe non to mild when the surf is bigger) - these are spots to avoid if you lot are non an experienced sea swimmer.
HAWAIIANS are really large on extended-family beach picnics fifty-fifty mid-week.
Note to a greater extent than surf on D T FLEMING inward this GOOGLE EARTH image.
Being on the northernrural-urban fringe of the LAHAI-KA'ANAPALI-KAPALUA built upwards area, D T FLEMING has plenty of unbuilt areas side past times side - at that spot is a squeamish park-like surface area behind the beach together with the western (left) headland is opened upwards together with an okay house to stroll.
Note the high halt RITZ CARLTON KAPALUA resort virtually 200m behind the beach - looked pretty squeamish to me; together with non as good many MAUI resorts receive got their "own"beach.
Note TOO the WALKING TRAILS beginning at the beach - ane argue I'm returning hither fifty-fifty though non gruntled past times the sand itself. The MAHANA RIDGE TRAIL climbs 16km/10mi into the Western Highlands, the COASTAL TRAIL extends (despite my marking) left out of frame together with S to KAPALUA BEACH (only abt 2.6km/1.6mi ane way) together with that POINT TRAIL (aka DRAGON'S TOOTH TRAIL) has a adept outlook dorsum over the beach. Details of some of the trails can live on establish here.
The beach inward prototype to the WEST (left) of DTF is ONELEA BEACH, past times all accounts a lovely petty house - that long headland would give it to a greater extent than shelter from the north-easterlies.
NAPILI BEACH
The minor bays to the S of D T FLEMING receive got some really squeamish beaches. NAPILI is ane of the to a greater extent than popular. It is indeed really squeamish - although it didn't brand my listing of BEST BEACHES. The affair is MAUI has so many squeamish beaches that at that spot has to live on something outstanding virtually ane to brand the list.
This is virtually 300m long together with fairly narrow (down to 15m from the high H2O score to dorsum of beach inward middle areas). Gradient fairly steep, continuing into H2O so it shelved fairly quickly. Abt 60m out a band of stone joins rocky areas side past times side both headlands - I took my confront mask: some fringing coral together with squeamish smaller fish - didn't view whatever turtles although they are non unknown at this place.
Orientation is to a greater extent than to the westward so together with at that spot is a long eastern headland so NAPILI is nicely protected from the north-east trades. Thus calm sea conditions inward this pic - some waves evidently comes thru when the relatively rare wintertime tempest swells acquire inward from the NORTHERN PACIFIC. There was to a greater extent than of a SURGE when I visited giving kids on body boards a dandy time. I establish this surge combined alongside soft sand together with the steep beach profile made exiting the H2O surprisingly difficult.
Some vegetation inward dorsum of beach for shade but taken when I visited. No lifeguards. No populace alter sheds/toilets - those off the due north halt of the beach were for side past times side HALE NAPILI RESORT guests (this beach has no dominant resorts or hotels - HALE is spread out together with depression ascension as are several smaller resorts together with condo buildings inward this area. This is a set dorsum beach - dissimilar busy KA'ANAPOLI farther south, no jet skis, no cruise boats pulling upwards on the sand or acquire to surf classes/commercial snorkeling groups. This is occupation solid unit of measurement vacation country. Nice.
Yellow paths are populace access routes. Blue is a headland walking rail - Hawaiian families were laying out picnics on the express lawn areas along hither - no populace picnic facilities at the beach itself. Limited parking inward the 2 lots shown but I got the impression most beach goers only walked inward from their nearby condos.
Note large expanse of KAHULUA GOLF CLUB BAY COURSE inward hinterland. Plenty of other courses inward the close vicinity.
For scale it's 600m/660yds betwixt the bottom left BUS STOP on the top right PARKING house marker.
ACCESSING THE NORTH WEST FOR BUDGET TRAVELERS.
The solely ane of these north-west destinations non visited past times the ALOHA BUNGALOW trip was NAPILI. At the fourth dimension I was staying 15km/8mi S at LAHAINA - I jumped on BUS #28 together with rode to the foremost of 2 stops close the beach. Public Access walkways allow beach access from the master copy road.
You tin attain the other destinations inward a higher house using this coach for the foremost piece of work of the journeying together with so walking or wheel riding the remainder:
D T FLEMING - coach right to the halt of the route (the HONOLUA STORE inward KAPALUA exactly due north of NAPILI) from where it is a 1km walk to D T F. IF you lot don't experience similar walking grab a rental wheel together with accept wages of the FREE BIKE RACKS on each bus.
HONOLUA BAY is 3.5km/2.2mi from HONOLUA STORE - complaint the route gets a few steep pinches due north of D T F.
NAKELE BLOWHOLE is 13km/8mi from the store. More than a few steep pinches.
The OLIVINE POOLS are 19km/12mi - fifty-fifty to a greater extent than depression gear stuff.
GOOGLE EARTH'S IDEA OF WALKING/CYCLING TIME FROM THE HONOLUA STORE BUS STOP (in minutes).
Not certain why I included NAPILI BCH - its ain coach stops are adjacent: abt a 2 min walk. Note I've establish GOOGLE EARTH'S walking times a fleck optimistic - but so as a 72yo geezer I stroll along inward no hurry at all.
I forgot a linear scale - it's 11km/7mi inward a direct line betwixt far left together with far right house markers (but 19km/13mi past times road).
Buses toll $2 a trip. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 daily unlimited-rides ticket is $4. Other buses connect LAHAINA alongside cardinal due north together with cardinal S MAUI including the AIRPORT together with PAI"A. Routes.
Tezza's rent a wreck from Wailuku's NORTH SHORE HOSTEL inward pride of house on front end of a MAUI COUNTY PUBLIC BUS. Wasn't a bad bike (I was amazed how much beer it could carry dorsum from the supermarket) apart from the frozen gears (I jammed it inward HIGH - non much fun upwards hills - but this beater was one-half the toll of first-class bikes available from MAUI'S many bicycle-rental outfits together with I'm a dedicated cheapskate).
LAHAINA
LAHAINA cardinal harbour surface area together with S beach from offshore - backdrop of western highlands pretty impressive.
Much the same surface area at night. Lady lower-center doesn't seem as good impressed alongside this happy snapper.
Most MAUI visitors brand a signal of seeing LAHAINA. At foremost it was the HISTORICAL constituent of this former whaling town (later a surfer-hippie haunt) alongside lots of restored former buildings, ruins, museums yada which drew people from around the island.
These visitors attracted the retailers - street-front on master copy st (FRONT ST) is a bunch of attractive shops offering resort-wear, surf together with dive stuff, the common touristy t- shirts/hats/trinkets, together with a surprising publish of high halt boutiques, jewelers together with fine art galleries (maybe non so surprising alongside KA'ANAPALI BCH a few miles due north beingness the HONEYMOON CAPITAL OF AMERICA - novel husbands tend to live on inward a generous mood).
For people needing refreshment at that spot is a large alternative of places from fast nutrient thru upstairs/downstairs bar/diners to high-end restaurants.
With this influx of people nosotros receive got the province of affairs today where many people go exactly to live on seen (I hateful SANDRA from SACREMENTO has carted that hot petty dark publish a long means - this is the large adventure to demo it off). Or to view those wanting to live on seen.
LAHAINA is also a tourist destintation inward itself - but accommodation is minor fourth dimension compared to the KA'ANAPOLI - KAPULUA strip to the north: nowhere close the quantity or quality.
I stayed four days inward the house on the ground of reasonably adept value backpacker dorm accommodation, a adept carry (bus) focus for the ease of the westward coast together with the fact that the guidebooks together with swain travelers mentioned the town is a fleck of a SCENE.
LAHAINA is kinda cardinal to MAUI'S westward coast. It was this area's original tourist finish but from the 80s-on the KA'ANAPALI-KAPALUA strip has been the focus together with these days acts as a major feeder of visitors to LAHAINA - for sure, KA'ANAPALI-KAPALUA hasn't a major shopping area: plenty of minor boutiques, malls together with places for visitors to strut their materials - but no focus for these similar at LAHAINA.
YELLOW ARROW shows INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT at eastern KAHULUI - at that spot is a smaller airdrome betwixt KAPALUA together with KA'ANAOPOLI. No uncertainty the movers together with shakers wing inward there. Land surface area bottom left is the fabulous isle of LANAI.
Straight line distance LAHAINA to AIRPORT ARROW is 24km/15mi but past times route you lot are looking at 38km/24mi - for budget travelers this is a 3 coach trip which volition toll you lot $4 if you lot purchase a daily unlimited-ride ticket.
Now most of you lot dudes volition grab the airdrome RENTAL CAR SHUTTLES to side past times side lots together with pick upwards a MUSTANG CONVERTIBLE or something similarly cool - jeez it's non so much fun beingness a bottom-budget coach traveler sometimes. Note at that spot are other AIRPORT SHUTTLE BUSES which tin acquire you lot to LAHAINA a lot quicker than the populace buses together with considerably cheaper than a RENTAL CAR or AIRPORT LIMO.
MUSTANG SALLY DOES LAHAINA.
The inward a higher house seemed the go on MAUI - argent or cherry MUSTANG convertibles whereas inward SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA final twelvemonth it was yellowish CAMAROS. Could live on a rental automobile society affair - but no complaints from me: did I cite I'm a car-nerd? I was kinda disappointed inward non seeing many STREET MACHINES/RODS, you lot would intend LAHAINA OR PAI'A would live on the perfect places to parade - no uncertainty the isle has them, but nowhere I went.
LAHAINA
Actually the town extends along Hwy30 to the due north out of prototype for a km or so - complaint as good how it is spreading upwards lower ridges of the western highlands. Neat pause inward offshore reef allows for compact harbour, originally attracting the whalers: at nowadays tour boats together with leisure craft,
Details may live on clearer if you lot click-expand image.
THE DOWNTOWN AREA
The cardinal shopping strip extends abt 700yds/1km from side past times side the harbour to the FRONT ST placemarker. Buses terminate at the WHARF COMPLEX ane block inward from FRONT ST. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 large FREE PARKING LOT is located nether the B of "HARBOUR" (yes Yanks, that's how nosotros Aussies piece it). There are numerous paid parking lots behind FRONT ST businesses. FOODLANDS is the most cardinal large supermarket - at that spot is some other (a SAFEWAY) virtually 1km due north exactly past times the turn-in for BABY BEACH (see map above) - both marts receive got purchase-validated gratis parking.
TIKI BCH HOSTEL was my elcheapo digs.
FRONT ST ARCHITECTURE
Any fourth dimension after abt 1100 FRONT ST is pretty busy - I managed to acquire a lull inward traffic to accept this belatedly afternoon shot to give some thought of the former restored whaling town architecture. Pretty squeamish together with non overdone as are a lot of heritage towns.
The inward a higher house surface area contains a huge diverseness of retail activity - heaps of fashion boutiques summation joints selling surfwear-surf equipment/dive-snorkel stuff/t-shirts/touristy trinkets: lots of restaurant/bars (many alongside upstairs areas where you lot tin banking corporation check the passing parade - together with the passing parade is pretty good: plenty of people come upwards hither exactly to live on seen); no shortage of fast nutrient outlets; together with a disproportionate # of jewelery joints/art galleries/florists. And of class at that spot is no lack of tour counters selling excursions of all types to places all around MAUI. These tend to live on really competitive - often cutting their margins to rhythm out the competition.
FRONT ST AT NIGHT
This is a pretty attractive house to wander after dark. Once in ane lawsuit again I waited for a lull to acquire this shot so it;s non instance of the publish of people who come upwards hither - the sidewalks tend to live on crowded alongside shoppers, people-watchers, people wanting to live on watched, revelers on their means to somewhere adept together with exactly normal vacation makers out for a stroll.
Upstairs at the DIRTY MONKEY (sports/karaoke bar alongside nutrient together with other music) tended to describe the revelers, but....
.....my favourite watering hole (with nutrient together with sports on TV) was the basement story DOWN THE HATCH.
I couldn't acquire over Americans' keenness to line upwards for fast food. I wouldn't line upwards if it was gratis - together with I'm a world class cheap-skate. These people were queuing for shaved H2O ice (Aussies telephone telephone them snowfall cones). There has to live on a dozen shaved H2O ice places inward town.
If you lot fancy some HAWAIIAN artifacts, several stores together with sidewalk places tin run across your wants.
BANYAN TREE PARK
One occupation alongside strolling FRONT ST is a lack of street seating - but exactly off the pes path close the southern halt of the shopping strip is this leafy surface area alongside plenty of seating inward the shade or Sun - your call. The is the biggest BANYAN TREE inward the US, virtually 60m across - it's all the ane tree; BANYANS pose downward supplementary trunks as they spread their canopy giving the impression you lot are inward a wood - this is enhanced hither because lots of climbing woody vines link ground together with canopy: existent tropical.
LAHAINA HARBOUR
Immediate seaward from BANYAN PARK is the harbour - I spun 180 degrees from the previous shot, fixed inward a fleck of telephoto, for this. Telephoto accounts for seeming closeness of fabulous LANAI ISLAND offshore - it's genuinely 9miles/16km, maybe twice the appearance. That's the EXPEDITIONS LAHAINA FERRY inward shot - an excellent, relatively inexpensive together with fast means to banking corporation check the place. Recommended.
The harbour is non existent big. Strolling the master copy concourse is an interesting 10 minutes - TRIP BOATS are line upwards alongside details re costs/inclusions/destinations on a board which remains when the boat is out. No uncertainty the trip counters inward town tin amend a lot of these - I saw some really adept value excursions beingness offered.
There's a marina surface area at the far halt - stocked alongside some really flash cruisers together with yachts.
Two of the to a greater extent than interesting along the concourse were these mini-submarines which tin demo people deeper coral together with fish than traditional glass-bottomed boats together with snorkeling.
BUSTING THE LAHAINA BEACH MYTH
When staying inward MAUI'S cardinal due north WAILUKU hostels I kept overhearing people returning from a LAHAINA see maxim "GREAT TOWN BUT NO BEACHES". Well that is non quite correct....
....SOUTH LAHAINA BEACH....
....starting straight off S of the harbour break-wall is nix to write habitation to mum about. It's so narrow that many parts are non-existent at high tide together with if you lot are looking for white-yellow sand you lot may live on disappointed. The offshore reef ensures it's pretty good protected from waves. Length wise it's non bad - extends S 1km/1100yards from harbour - maybe 700m/770yards behind camera.
BABY BEACH....
....is a much amend bet. This shallow C-shaped 600m strip of sand is also fairly narrow but has plenty sand at highest tide to lay a towel/sarong. Sand is to a greater extent than yellowish (a fleck grayish towards the far northern end). Very protected past times the offshore reef together with the bottom shelves like shooting fish in a barrel making it an ideal kids' beach (but non as adept as PAI'S BABY BEACH on the BEST BEACHES PAGE).
As tin live on seen at that spot are pretty sweetness sunsets all along this westward coast.
LAHAINA BABY BEACH isn't perfect. No parking lot together with street parking is express (the large SAFEWAY purchase-validated parking surface area is non as good far), no lifeguard, no alter sheds/showers together with plenty of broken coral on the sand/in water.
ACCESS - turn off HIGH ST into PUUNOA PLACE a few hundred meters due north of the halt of LAHAINA'S shopping strip - go 200m downward to the beach.
TIKI BEACH HOSTEL
Only a few hundred meters S of the harbour, this HIGH ST addressed articulation was genuinely inward a side lane (with a narrow alley at the halt onto SOUTH LAHAINA BEACH).
This is my sort of articulation - alongside average LAHAINA accommodation inward August due north of $US200 (and the flash KA'ANAPALI joints $350-500+) I could acquire me a dorm bed for nether $50.
This articulation seemed to live on an former four holiday-unit house - ane given to the management/owners. Each had its ain kitchen-living area, bathroom + 2 three-double bunk dorms. Worked a charm although at that spot seemed to live on a lot of local guys-chicks tuning other local guys-chicks (if I was a local guy I'd live on tuning backpacker babes of which at that spot was no shortage. However as a 72 yo geezer, I was tuning no-one).
The dorsum garden surface area was a existent squeamish house to hang out at the halt of a busy day. TIKI has a lot of extras - check the website.
PAI'A
Typical of this cardinal due north coast surfer-hippy town. For the uninititiated, a GROM is a JUNIOR SURFER.
PAI'A is the due north shore's smaller version of LAHAINA - this former surfer-hippy town has similar restored 30s-50s wooden buildings where retail infinite inward the master copy st has been given to similar trendy boutiques/surf joints//bar diners/fast food/tourist clothing-hats-trinkets yada..
I gotta say I solely saw one hippy the vii days I stayed hither - I got the impression trendy PAI'S high rentals receive got pushed them out to smaller HALEAKALA FOOTHILLS together with ROAD TO HANA towns. Surfers? Well I was surprised past times the lack of these dudes - but I'm thinking it may live on a different motion painting inward WINTER when those large tempest swells from the NORTH PACIFIC start to deport upon MAUI'S North Shore. Thing is, SUMMER surf on MAUI'S due north shore (as elsewhere) is pretty underwhelming.
Not as good much going on off nearby HOOKIPA BEACH'S eastern headland (abt 3 km due east of town) inward August - but this would live on an first-class right-hander inward whatever large wintertime swell. Not as adept as ane of HAWAII'S legendary large moving ridge locations JAWS abt 5km farther east.
HOOKIPA is a must see if inward the surface area - makes my BEST BEACHES page as MAUI'S best wind-surfing together with a dandy turtle-sunning beach
Actually HOOKIPA is a WORLD CLASS windsurfing venue. Dudes had a existent adept circuit going at the western halt of the beach.
PAI'A CEMETERY BEACH
Even amend for checking turtles sunning on the sand mid-late afternoon was what I holler CEMETERY BEACH, behind the grave-yard exactly past times the due east halt of PAI'S shopping strip. Because it's a fleck daggy together with has hard access few people go there, offering turtles to a greater extent than seclusion.
BALDWIN BEACH AND PAI'S BABY BEACH
The PAI area's nicest beach is 1400m long BALDWIN. Pai's BABY BEACH (not to live on confused alongside the westward coast's Lahaina BABY BEACH) is at the yellow-arrowed western halt - the blueish arrow shows the BALDWIN BEACH PARK surface area (excellent facilities) which tin live on walked to 10 minutes westward of town central. Both beaches figure on the MAUI'S BEST BEACHES page.
TOWN CENTRAL
Typical architecture together with traffic inward PAI'S master copy street.
MILAGROS BAR-DINER
PAI'A is non brusk of bar-diners but my favourite was right inward the optic of town side past times side the HANA HWY-BALDWIN ST traffic lights - MILAGROS.
MILAGROS' corner terrace offered first-class people viewing - something a unmarried traveler tends to do to a greater extent than than most. Like westward coast's LAHAINA, PAI'A seemed to attract people from all around the island. It is an first-class pit halt for folk doing the HANA ROAD trip or checking out HALEAKALA volcano, but if you lot desire to pass fourth dimension at BALDWIN/BABY/CEMETERY together with HOOKIPA beaches it is a finish inward itself.
MILAGROS nutrient trends to Tex-Mex but I had me some cheesy fries - inexpensive together with yummy. Place has a adept line of beers too.
ALOHA SURF HOSTEL
This first-class house was a petty over 10 minutes upwards BALDWIN ST from the master copy intersection. I rated it the best of my four MAUI hostels - together with all were inward a higher house average. One summation is the FREE EXCURSION each 24-hour interval of the calendar week which solely Wailuku's BANANA BUNGALOW could jibe (that house was a petty to a greater extent than crowded). White van is excursion vehicle.
I was expecting the house to live on overcrowded alongside surfer-dudes but non inward summertime evidently - 80% of guests were female.
ALOHA SURF had a squeamish dorsum garden surface area alongside bbq together with hot tub facilities. Great for socialising.
PAI'A LOCATION
PAI'A is on the cardinal due north coast abt 6mi/10km past times route due east of the airdrome (4/6 inward a direct line) together with some other 2/3 to cardinal KAHULUI - MAUI'S biggest town. Bus 35 runs from KAHULUI'S cardinal terminal via the airdrome to PAI'A - but solely every ninety minutes.
YELLOW ARROW shows BALDWIN BEACH which is exactly out of frame-left inward the prototype below.
PAI'A TOWN
The darker yellowish (dumb color I know - sorry) around the HANA HWY/BALDWIN AVE focus depicts the funky shopping zone.
I forgot to add together a linear scale - it's 1000yards/910m inward a direct line betwixt the ALOHA HOSTEL together with CEMETERY BCH house markers.
The cross-road lights summation heaps of vacation traffic heading to/from HANA saw an extended traffic line both sides of town anytime betwixt 0930 together with 2000 inward busy August. This is shot from almost the access lane into BALDWIN BEACH PARK westward of town.
WAIHEE RIDGE TRAIL
INTO THE CLOUDS
Gets pretty high towards the top (the plough around is approx 2500ft/760m) - a fair fleck earlier this nosotros were oft surrounded past times cloud - sometimes alongside low-cal drizzle. The WESTERN HIGHLANDS are similar that (as ane of the wettest places inward Blue Planet pelting is non ever low-cal drizzle: nosotros were lucky. It was clear together with sunny when nosotros left BANANA BUNGALOW inward WAILUKU solely 6mi/10km away inward a direct line - ditto when nosotros returned four hours later.
Apparently cloud tends to create during the 24-hour interval - an early on start is the go: the parking surface area opens 0700 (closes 1900). We started abt 1100.
WAIHEE RIDGE TRAIL LOCATION
WAIHEE RIDGE TRAIL is on the north-east slopes of the heavily eroded eastern highlands which was MAUI'S foremost dome volcano. The TRAIL's automobile green is exactly nether a mile/1.6km upwards an access route which leaves narrow-winding HWY340 contrary the MENDES RANCH. The ranch is abt 8mi/13km past times route north-west of downtown KAHULUI together with 13mi/21km south-east of NAKELE BLOWHOLE, Straight line scale? Between the final ii places it's one-half route distance - ie 6.5/10.5.
Oblique Google ground of the trail - I mightiness receive got cranked inward as good much vertical exaggeration but the WESTERN HIGHLANDS are pretty rugged. Labels volition live on clearer if you lot click-expand image. Deep valley to the LEFT of trail is the WAIHEE VALLEY.
You are looking from the EAST to a few degrees S of WEST inward this image.
From the sizable parking surface area the trail is abt 5mi/8km supply together with climbs 1500ft/460m starting at 1000ft/305m.
Unfortunately for budget travellers, no populace buses run anywhere close MENDES RANCH. Fortunately BANANA BUNGALOW HOSTEL runs a gratis weekly guided excursion together with vans participants to the trail head. I'm a sucker for uphill climbs, peculiarly when guided together with gratis so I joined the mob. At 72 I shuffle along together with establish I was towards the halt of the queue lower on the trail but I maintain on keeping on together with was pleased to notice I was 2d behind our guide at the summit. Won't comment virtually the descent - worn out 72yo knees HATE descents.
Track conditions varied - this 400m paved department from the parking lot is the steepest of the whole trail (well, at that spot may live on a few brusk steep scrambles higher up). I would sort the inward a higher house as STEEP - but means below my VERY STEEP, HEARTBREAKER together with DON'T SEND FLOWERS categories. Other sections ranged from MODERATE to FAIRLY STEEP - at that spot were fifty-fifty a few FLAT together with DOWNHILL parts.
SURFACE WISE the inward a higher house was as adept as it gets - most of the rail was UNSEALED, sometimes SMOOTH GRAVEL, other times alongside ROCKS together with ROOTS together with inward a few of the steep scrambling sections MUD MADE SLIPPERY alongside the drizzle - this proved tricky on the means downward together with several of us went for a slide. I'd similar to say I avoided this but can't tell a lie. I was non gruntled. I reckon hiking poles would receive got been useful descending these sections.
As the non so proud possessor of worn-out 72yo knees which HATE DESCENTS, I was pleased to complaint NO STAIRS inward the trail - maybe ane or ii step-ups/downs.
Before hitting the clouds was this pretty adept stance of MAUI'S cardinal due north bay area. That's the northern piece of work of WAILUKU (a companion suburb to KAHULUI) lower mid-distance. The AIRPORT surface area tin exactly live on seen at higher right frame-edge. The beaches around PAI'A are top-center.
MAKAMAKAKAOLE VALLEY
About one-half means upwards nosotros got this adept stance of a tributary of the MAKAMAKAOLE STREAM feeding into the valley of the same name.
WAIHEE VALLEY
A petty higher was this outlook into the side past times side WAIHEE VALLEY. It continues upwards to the right together with deepens but unfortunately nosotros were inward cloud past times so together with I didn't acquire whatever pix.
DOWNHILL!
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DT FLEMING BEACH (25% downward page)
HONOLUA BAY (20%.down page),
LAHAINA (45%)
NAKALELA BLOWHOLE (5%)
NAPILI BEACH (30%)
OVILINE POOLS (10)
PAI'A (65)
WAIHEE RIDGE TRAIL (80).
The affair virtually MAUI is at that spot is SO much to view - I was at that spot for over 3 weeks, went somewhere interesting every 24-hour interval - but STILL DIDN'T SEE EVERYTHING WORTH SEEING. Maybe next visit.
On other pages of this weblog you lot volition discovery materials virtually what is regarded as the BIG TIME MAUI MUST SEES - good most of them.
Even though IMHO, no house is a MUST view the next are what I regard as SHOULD SEES (if you lot receive got the time).
THE NORTH WEST CORNER
For perspective it is exactly over 11km /7mi betwixt the western most together with eastern most house markers inward a direct line (22km/14mi past times road). NAPILI BEACH is virtually 10km/6mi past times route due north of tourist-central KA'ANAPALI BEACH.
Place names volition live on clearer if you lot click-expand. Sorry abt the spelling of NAKALELE at top.
NAKALELE BLOWHOLE....
....starting at the northern most point....
WHY information technology PAYS TO WAIT
Can't say I'm whelmed past times the latest semi G-string swimsuit tendency - takes a svelte derriere to cutting it, something which most electrical flow immature ladies who are worshipers of KRISPY KREME, RONALD MCDONALD together with KIM KARDASHION can't do.
OH MAMA!
Well YES but it certain DON'T LOOK GOOD.
And I don't fifty-fifty desire to intend virtually the dopey (maybe HILARIOUS is a amend word) tan lines.
Excuse me for beingness so outspoken on this, but DUMB FASHION summation things similar as nonsensical NEOCLASSICAL ECONOMICS together with THE CARGO CULT MENTALITY OF MODERN CONSUMERS/VOTERS are subjects that genuinely acquire me going. I'll receive got to start a BLOG.
It's 600m inward a direct line betwixt the CAR PARK together with BLOWHOLE house markers.
The automobile green at left is at the 39.5 mile - marker. Labels may live on clearer if you lot click-expand image.
OLIVINE POOLS
Head some other four miles due east along twisting hwy 340 to mileage marking xvi (they are counting from a different management here) to attain the high roadside parking surface area of the OLIVINE POOLS alongside a similar hike downward a rugged rocky path to the to a span of those tidal pools mutual to lava-formed seaside stone platforms.
These PANORAMA shots click-expand nicely.
Above was fine, but the haul upwards the abrupt rocks was a tad difficult. Not recommended.
HONOLUA BAY
I've already dealt alongside HONOLUA on my BEST BEACHES page - gave it the honor for BEST BEACH HINTERLAND together with an also cite inward the BEST SURFING BEACH together with BEST SNORKELLING sections. Click to at that spot for to a greater extent than info....
D T FLEMING BEACH PARK
I wasn't whelmed past times D T FLEMING - it didn't brand my listing of BEST BEACHES past times a long shot. Main occupation I had was alongside its ORIENTATION - as you lot tin view below it faces largely due north dissimilar most westward coast beaches, has pathetic headland protection on its due east side together with is so to a greater extent than exposed to the blustery NORTH EAST TRADES which blow on MAUI 95% of the time. This exposure leads to choppy seas together with some sand blowing around on the beach. Not to cite bigger surf on those rare days when swell from a NORTH PACIFIC STORM arrives.
Big surf is adept for surfer dudes but for normal holidaymakers it tin create unsafe waves together with rip currents.
On other days when the NORTH PACIFIC STORM SWELLS are non ariving but when the north-easterly trades are blowier than normal you lot volition acquire to a greater extent than sea swell hitting this exposed beach.
Note the LIFEGUARD TOWER mid beach (better seen if click expanded) - at that spot are alter sheds/showers close the parking surface area behind this - non to cite picnic tables, bbq grills together with fifty-fifty a burger concession.
Not really crowded on this squeamish mid-week AUGUST 24-hour interval but I receive got heard things tin acquire busy on a weekend.
Note the chopped upwards H2O inward the bay. But surf swell was pretty benign the 24-hour interval I visited.
Note lotsa palm needles together with twigs towards the dorsum of the beach. Suggests deport upon of wind.
That's MOLOKA'I island inward background.
I had a swim - off the sand the bottom shelved gently together with on this fairly benign 24-hour interval swell-wise (chop is non swell - sea nerds telephone telephone chop "SEAS": so weather condition reports often cite "2ft SEAS on a 5ft SWELL" etc. Good fun when they are coming from different directions (chop is caused past times local winds - swell past times to a greater extent than distant [often storm] winds). In the inward a higher house shot I reckon nosotros receive got "1ft SEAS on a 1ft SWELL") but swimming is non much fun on choppy days - plough the caput to breath together with acquire a oral fissure total of water. As mentioned I didn't discovery whatever rip currents. There is likely a mild ane along that far headland inward the shot inward a higher house this (maybe non to mild when the surf is bigger) - these are spots to avoid if you lot are non an experienced sea swimmer.
Being on the northernrural-urban fringe of the LAHAI-KA'ANAPALI-KAPALUA built upwards area, D T FLEMING has plenty of unbuilt areas side past times side - at that spot is a squeamish park-like surface area behind the beach together with the western (left) headland is opened upwards together with an okay house to stroll.
Note the high halt RITZ CARLTON KAPALUA resort virtually 200m behind the beach - looked pretty squeamish to me; together with non as good many MAUI resorts receive got their "own"beach.
Note TOO the WALKING TRAILS beginning at the beach - ane argue I'm returning hither fifty-fifty though non gruntled past times the sand itself. The MAHANA RIDGE TRAIL climbs 16km/10mi into the Western Highlands, the COASTAL TRAIL extends (despite my marking) left out of frame together with S to KAPALUA BEACH (only abt 2.6km/1.6mi ane way) together with that POINT TRAIL (aka DRAGON'S TOOTH TRAIL) has a adept outlook dorsum over the beach. Details of some of the trails can live on establish here.
The beach inward prototype to the WEST (left) of DTF is ONELEA BEACH, past times all accounts a lovely petty house - that long headland would give it to a greater extent than shelter from the north-easterlies.
NAPILI BEACH
The minor bays to the S of D T FLEMING receive got some really squeamish beaches. NAPILI is ane of the to a greater extent than popular. It is indeed really squeamish - although it didn't brand my listing of BEST BEACHES. The affair is MAUI has so many squeamish beaches that at that spot has to live on something outstanding virtually ane to brand the list.
Orientation is to a greater extent than to the westward so together with at that spot is a long eastern headland so NAPILI is nicely protected from the north-east trades. Thus calm sea conditions inward this pic - some waves evidently comes thru when the relatively rare wintertime tempest swells acquire inward from the NORTHERN PACIFIC. There was to a greater extent than of a SURGE when I visited giving kids on body boards a dandy time. I establish this surge combined alongside soft sand together with the steep beach profile made exiting the H2O surprisingly difficult.
Some vegetation inward dorsum of beach for shade but taken when I visited. No lifeguards. No populace alter sheds/toilets - those off the due north halt of the beach were for side past times side HALE NAPILI RESORT guests (this beach has no dominant resorts or hotels - HALE is spread out together with depression ascension as are several smaller resorts together with condo buildings inward this area. This is a set dorsum beach - dissimilar busy KA'ANAPOLI farther south, no jet skis, no cruise boats pulling upwards on the sand or acquire to surf classes/commercial snorkeling groups. This is occupation solid unit of measurement vacation country. Nice.
Note large expanse of KAHULUA GOLF CLUB BAY COURSE inward hinterland. Plenty of other courses inward the close vicinity.
For scale it's 600m/660yds betwixt the bottom left BUS STOP on the top right PARKING house marker.
ACCESSING THE NORTH WEST FOR BUDGET TRAVELERS.
The solely ane of these north-west destinations non visited past times the ALOHA BUNGALOW trip was NAPILI. At the fourth dimension I was staying 15km/8mi S at LAHAINA - I jumped on BUS #28 together with rode to the foremost of 2 stops close the beach. Public Access walkways allow beach access from the master copy road.
You tin attain the other destinations inward a higher house using this coach for the foremost piece of work of the journeying together with so walking or wheel riding the remainder:
D T FLEMING - coach right to the halt of the route (the HONOLUA STORE inward KAPALUA exactly due north of NAPILI) from where it is a 1km walk to D T F. IF you lot don't experience similar walking grab a rental wheel together with accept wages of the FREE BIKE RACKS on each bus.
HONOLUA BAY is 3.5km/2.2mi from HONOLUA STORE - complaint the route gets a few steep pinches due north of D T F.
NAKELE BLOWHOLE is 13km/8mi from the store. More than a few steep pinches.
The OLIVINE POOLS are 19km/12mi - fifty-fifty to a greater extent than depression gear stuff.
GOOGLE EARTH'S IDEA OF WALKING/CYCLING TIME FROM THE HONOLUA STORE BUS STOP (in minutes).
I forgot a linear scale - it's 11km/7mi inward a direct line betwixt far left together with far right house markers (but 19km/13mi past times road).
Buses toll $2 a trip. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 daily unlimited-rides ticket is $4. Other buses connect LAHAINA alongside cardinal due north together with cardinal S MAUI including the AIRPORT together with PAI"A. Routes.
LAHAINA
Most MAUI visitors brand a signal of seeing LAHAINA. At foremost it was the HISTORICAL constituent of this former whaling town (later a surfer-hippie haunt) alongside lots of restored former buildings, ruins, museums yada which drew people from around the island.
These visitors attracted the retailers - street-front on master copy st (FRONT ST) is a bunch of attractive shops offering resort-wear, surf together with dive stuff, the common touristy t- shirts/hats/trinkets, together with a surprising publish of high halt boutiques, jewelers together with fine art galleries (maybe non so surprising alongside KA'ANAPALI BCH a few miles due north beingness the HONEYMOON CAPITAL OF AMERICA - novel husbands tend to live on inward a generous mood).
For people needing refreshment at that spot is a large alternative of places from fast nutrient thru upstairs/downstairs bar/diners to high-end restaurants.
With this influx of people nosotros receive got the province of affairs today where many people go exactly to live on seen (I hateful SANDRA from SACREMENTO has carted that hot petty dark publish a long means - this is the large adventure to demo it off). Or to view those wanting to live on seen.
LAHAINA is also a tourist destintation inward itself - but accommodation is minor fourth dimension compared to the KA'ANAPOLI - KAPULUA strip to the north: nowhere close the quantity or quality.
I stayed four days inward the house on the ground of reasonably adept value backpacker dorm accommodation, a adept carry (bus) focus for the ease of the westward coast together with the fact that the guidebooks together with swain travelers mentioned the town is a fleck of a SCENE.
YELLOW ARROW shows INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT at eastern KAHULUI - at that spot is a smaller airdrome betwixt KAPALUA together with KA'ANAOPOLI. No uncertainty the movers together with shakers wing inward there. Land surface area bottom left is the fabulous isle of LANAI.
Straight line distance LAHAINA to AIRPORT ARROW is 24km/15mi but past times route you lot are looking at 38km/24mi - for budget travelers this is a 3 coach trip which volition toll you lot $4 if you lot purchase a daily unlimited-ride ticket.
Now most of you lot dudes volition grab the airdrome RENTAL CAR SHUTTLES to side past times side lots together with pick upwards a MUSTANG CONVERTIBLE or something similarly cool - jeez it's non so much fun beingness a bottom-budget coach traveler sometimes. Note at that spot are other AIRPORT SHUTTLE BUSES which tin acquire you lot to LAHAINA a lot quicker than the populace buses together with considerably cheaper than a RENTAL CAR or AIRPORT LIMO.
MUSTANG SALLY DOES LAHAINA.
LAHAINA
Details may live on clearer if you lot click-expand image.
THE DOWNTOWN AREA
TIKI BCH HOSTEL was my elcheapo digs.
FRONT ST ARCHITECTURE
The inward a higher house surface area contains a huge diverseness of retail activity - heaps of fashion boutiques summation joints selling surfwear-surf equipment/dive-snorkel stuff/t-shirts/touristy trinkets: lots of restaurant/bars (many alongside upstairs areas where you lot tin banking corporation check the passing parade - together with the passing parade is pretty good: plenty of people come upwards hither exactly to live on seen); no shortage of fast nutrient outlets; together with a disproportionate # of jewelery joints/art galleries/florists. And of class at that spot is no lack of tour counters selling excursions of all types to places all around MAUI. These tend to live on really competitive - often cutting their margins to rhythm out the competition.
FRONT ST AT NIGHT
BANYAN TREE PARK
LAHAINA HARBOUR
There's a marina surface area at the far halt - stocked alongside some really flash cruisers together with yachts.
LAHAINA HISTORICAL SITES - lotsa former colonial fourth dimension together with cane farming 24-hour interval ruins inward the area. I'm non a history buff together with so checked none, but heritage nerds volition discovery plenty to involvement them.
LAHAINA HARBOUR AREA FROM OFFSHORE.
Click-expand volition brand things clearer. If you lot aspect at lower right corner......
....you may live on able to view surfer dudes working over minor moving ridge breaking on exterior of south-harbour reef.
Note at far right LAHAINA'S solely high ascension hotel, the understated (compared to the large flash jobs a few km due north at Ka'anapali) LAHAINA SHORES BEACH RESORT. There's other tourist accommodation inward town, much inward low-rise refurbished 50s fashion resorts; a publish of invitee houses; rooms to let; summation 2 actual backpackers' - but LAHAINA accommodation is minor fourth dimension compared to the KA'ANAPALI-NAPILI-KAPALUA strip to the north.
BUSTING THE LAHAINA BEACH MYTH
When staying inward MAUI'S cardinal due north WAILUKU hostels I kept overhearing people returning from a LAHAINA see maxim "GREAT TOWN BUT NO BEACHES". Well that is non quite correct....
....SOUTH LAHAINA BEACH....
BABY BEACH....
As tin live on seen at that spot are pretty sweetness sunsets all along this westward coast.
LAHAINA BABY BEACH isn't perfect. No parking lot together with street parking is express (the large SAFEWAY purchase-validated parking surface area is non as good far), no lifeguard, no alter sheds/showers together with plenty of broken coral on the sand/in water.
ACCESS - turn off HIGH ST into PUUNOA PLACE a few hundred meters due north of the halt of LAHAINA'S shopping strip - go 200m downward to the beach.
TIKI BEACH HOSTEL
This is my sort of articulation - alongside average LAHAINA accommodation inward August due north of $US200 (and the flash KA'ANAPALI joints $350-500+) I could acquire me a dorm bed for nether $50.
This articulation seemed to live on an former four holiday-unit house - ane given to the management/owners. Each had its ain kitchen-living area, bathroom + 2 three-double bunk dorms. Worked a charm although at that spot seemed to live on a lot of local guys-chicks tuning other local guys-chicks (if I was a local guy I'd live on tuning backpacker babes of which at that spot was no shortage. However as a 72 yo geezer, I was tuning no-one).
PAI'A
PAI'A is the due north shore's smaller version of LAHAINA - this former surfer-hippy town has similar restored 30s-50s wooden buildings where retail infinite inward the master copy st has been given to similar trendy boutiques/surf joints//bar diners/fast food/tourist clothing-hats-trinkets yada..
I gotta say I solely saw one hippy the vii days I stayed hither - I got the impression trendy PAI'S high rentals receive got pushed them out to smaller HALEAKALA FOOTHILLS together with ROAD TO HANA towns. Surfers? Well I was surprised past times the lack of these dudes - but I'm thinking it may live on a different motion painting inward WINTER when those large tempest swells from the NORTH PACIFIC start to deport upon MAUI'S North Shore. Thing is, SUMMER surf on MAUI'S due north shore (as elsewhere) is pretty underwhelming.
PAI'A CEMETERY BEACH
BALDWIN BEACH AND PAI'S BABY BEACH
TOWN CENTRAL
ALOHA SURF HOSTEL
I was expecting the house to live on overcrowded alongside surfer-dudes but non inward summertime evidently - 80% of guests were female.
PAI'A LOCATION
YELLOW ARROW shows BALDWIN BEACH which is exactly out of frame-left inward the prototype below.
PAI'A TOWN
I forgot to add together a linear scale - it's 1000yards/910m inward a direct line betwixt the ALOHA HOSTEL together with CEMETERY BCH house markers.
WAIHEE RIDGE TRAIL
INTO THE CLOUDS
Apparently cloud tends to create during the 24-hour interval - an early on start is the go: the parking surface area opens 0700 (closes 1900). We started abt 1100.
WAIHEE RIDGE TRAIL LOCATION
You are looking from the EAST to a few degrees S of WEST inward this image.
SURFACE WISE the inward a higher house was as adept as it gets - most of the rail was UNSEALED, sometimes SMOOTH GRAVEL, other times alongside ROCKS together with ROOTS together with inward a few of the steep scrambling sections MUD MADE SLIPPERY alongside the drizzle - this proved tricky on the means downward together with several of us went for a slide. I'd similar to say I avoided this but can't tell a lie. I was non gruntled. I reckon hiking poles would receive got been useful descending these sections.
As the non so proud possessor of worn-out 72yo knees which HATE DESCENTS, I was pleased to complaint NO STAIRS inward the trail - maybe ane or ii step-ups/downs.
MAKAMAKAKAOLE VALLEY
About one-half means upwards nosotros got this adept stance of a tributary of the MAKAMAKAOLE STREAM feeding into the valley of the same name.
WAIHEE VALLEY
A petty higher was this outlook into the side past times side WAIHEE VALLEY. It continues upwards to the right together with deepens but unfortunately nosotros were inward cloud past times so together with I didn't acquire whatever pix.
DOWNHILL!
I took these shots LOOKING BACK DOWN the trail - as you lot tin view at that spot are a few brusk sections where the slope flattens out, fifty-fifty becomes negative for people heading up.
Nature lovers volition taste the diverseness of works life together with fauna. Apparently tweeters dearest this area.
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At the top was a viewing platform - unfortunately the outlook into the upper WAIHEE VALLEY together with side past times side peaks was hindered past times cloud. Took our grouping virtually 100 minutes to climb, lxxx to descend.
CAVEAT: I'm non certain BANANA'S mount hike is ever at WAIHEE RIDGE - the pictures on the website propose it could often live on at the fabulous IAO VALLEY. However that house was notwithstanding unopen for repairs to alluvion impairment the calendar week I stayed at BANANA - fortunately some sections reopened temporarily a fortnight subsequently which allowed me to do a to a greater extent than formidable ridge climb there.
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