Rosemary and Carol's Most Excellent Adventure.: 2011

Thursday, October 27, 2011

October 13, 2011, Boo Hoo Thursday

10-4-2011 Carol and Rosemary with Little Blue Maui in Maui Hawaii.

We fly out at 1:30 pm Maui time, 7:30 pm Michigan time.

Returning Little Blue Maui today, I really really liked that little blue Mustang convertible, it was very easy to drive and park.

I'm also going to rate the Lahaina Shores Resort...it was perfect for us. Beach, ocean, grass, shade, pool, hot tub, nice beach, lounge chairs...room was very clean, beds were comfortable with clean sheets and linen blankets. Walking to stores and restaurants.

http://www.lahainashores.com/

Lots of ocean breeze and view.

I recommend highly.

I hope you all have enjoyed sharing "Rosemary and Carol's Most Excellent Adventure" in Maui. It is a great way to do a scrapbook album. If you have never been to Hawaii...I think it is a place you need to visit at least once in your lifetime, if not more.

Thanks again.
Rosemary

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

October 12, 2011, Maui Wednesday

10-12-2011 7:12 am The Island of Lanai.

10-12-2011 The Coast Guard ship is still here, but it will leave today.

We have decided to drive south and just look at the scenery.

It is a great drive out Hwy. 30 the Honoapilani Highway and continue on Hwy. 310 trying to stay as close to the coast as possible.

10-12-2011 10:20 am Makena State Park

10-12-2011 Warning

10-12-2011 We noticed that most of the beaches had some trees for shade, at least somewhere near.

10-12-2011 Crescent Islant of Molokini

10-12-2011 Makena Bay

10-12-2011 Molokini Island. "Like a crescent moon fallen from the sky, the crater of Molokini sits almost midway between Maui and the uninhabited Island of Kahoolawe. On its concave side Molokini serves as a natural sanctuary for tropical fish."

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10-12-2011 This was such a beautiful beach and to visit it on our last day in Maui was a bit bittersweet.

10-12-2011 Molokini Island.

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10-12-2011 Nice to have some shade.

10-12-2011 My favorite photo taken by Carol. This is so me in Maui.

We decided to eat lunch back at Leilani's at the Whalers Village Shopping Center (I really loved that sandwich, thanks Carol) with the view of Ka'anapali Beach.

Spent some time floating in the ocean on our rafts and lounging, then packed some, before we went into Lahaina for dinner at the Pioneer Inn, we had Fish and Chips and listened to the entertainment. The Happy Hour crowd was still there having a good time. Music was loud but good.

10-12-2011 The Hawaiian Island were on the outside wall by the front entrance to the Lahiana Shore Beach Resort in Maui.

10-12-2011 Little Blue Maui sandwiched between a Dodge and another Mustang convertible.

10-12-2011 Walking to Lahiana.

10-12-2011 Lahaina

10-12-2011 Lahaina Maui

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"This Banyan Tree was first planted in April, 1873, and marked the 50th Anniversary of Christian missionary work in Lahaina. The tree was imported from India was only 8 feet tall. It now stands over 60 feet high, has 12 major trunks in addition to a huge core. It stretches over a 200-foot area and shades 2/3 of an acre." It is supposed to be the 2nd largest in the world, the largest being in India. It is only ONE tree.

10-12-2011 Lahaina

10-12-2011 Lahaina has 2 miles of very nice shops.

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10-12-2011 The Lahaina Marina photo taken from the Pioneer Inn Restaurant and Bar.

10-12-2011 Lahaina Marina

10-12-2011 Inside the Pioneer Inn and Bar at Happy Hour. Lahaina Maui

10-12-2011 Light house in Lahaina.

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10-12-2011 The next time you see this octopus table he will be in Nokomis Florida.

10-12-2011 This is the creepy whale harpooner that Carol liked.

10-12-2011 Okay, I stand corrected, he is creepy Master Harpoonist.

10-12-2011 Lahaina

10-12-2011 Banyan Tree Park in the evening. Lahaina, this Banyan tree is supposed to be the 2nd largest in the world, the largest is in India. (This is all just one tree)

We had ice cream for dessert and did some people watching and the last window shopping.

Spent the rest of the evening watching Harry's Law.

October 11, 2011, Maui Tuesday

10-11-2011 6:22 am

10-11-2011 Maui Morning.

Got breakfast at the Banyan Tree Deli and Bakery, bought coffee at one of the coffee shops and sat on a bench by the sea wall in Lahaina and ate our muffin breakfast. It was very good.

On our way back to Lahaina Shores we bought two inflatable rafts, Carol green, mine pink. We spent the day floating in the ocean from 11 am to 3:30 pm. Well, we floated, got some sun, read and relaxed.

10-11-2011 There's the Coast Guard and the Sight seeing Sub.

10-11-2011 Atlantis Submarine, 48 passenger sub out of Lahaina. 40 minute ride for about $100.00 bucks each person. It cruises the reef for sealife.

We dressed up in our Hawaiian long flowered dresses and walked to the Maui Theatre in Lahaina and enjoyed the "Ulalena" play, it was a beautiful depiction of Hawaii's history.

10-11-2011 The cast of Ulalena. The new era of golden people face their future as the "Llalena rain embraces them - their essence and spirit molded into a way of life that is close to nature.

10-11-2011 The Ulalena Program.

After that we had dinner at Lahaina's Hard Rock Cafe.

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

October 10, 2011, Maui Monday, Columbus Day

10-10-2011 8:17 am Another beautiful picture from our balcony of Lanai Island early in the morning.

Road trip day, went off to the north of Lahaina to explore.

Stopped at Ka'anapali Beach.

We visited the Whalers Village Shopping Center, very nice shops and the Whaler Museum. It really was the best museum that we went to, it was very interesting. They had displayed a lot of the letters that the men wrote home about actually being on the whaling ships and the whaler's life. One I'd go back to.

Had lunch at Leilani's with Ocean view, beach side. I loved their cold chicken sandwich probably the best of anything I ate in Maui.

The beach there has view of Lana'i and Moloka'i Islands. Just a little farther north is the Black Rock ( Pu'u Keka's) they have a nightly cliff diving ceremony.

10-10-2011 Fountain at the Whaler's Village Shopping Center at Ka'anapali Maui.

10-10-2011 Looking north from the Whaler's Village you can see the Black Rock.

10-10-2011 The Black Rock in front of the Sheridan Resort.

10-10-2011 There is a nightly cliff diving ceremony.

10-10-2011 The Kaanapali Beach is 4 miles long and one of Maui's best beaches, with grainy gold sand. We did see a turtle here swimming...but he was camera shy.

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10-10-2011 Kaanapali Beach and the Island of Lanai.

10-10-2011 The view from the restaurant.

10-10-2011 Leilani's Restaurant, there where like 3 or 4 restaurants here.

2011 A whale bone display.

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10-10-2011 The Whale Museum was off to the left.

10-10-2011 View of the West Maui Mountains.

10-10-2011 Here are some of the trees I loved. They were brought here to provide shade for the workers.

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10-10-2011 When we left the WhalerVillage Shopping Center we went North and found a little drive that took us on the North side of Black Road.

10-10-2011 This was very pretty and had a lot less people here.

10-10-2011 It was probably still considered Ka'anapali Beach, but I'm not sure.

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We than came back to Lahaina and sat by the pool and enjoyed the afternoon breeze and sun. Then off to dinner in Lahaina.

Kama Pua'a The Pig Child

A long time ago on the Island of Oahu, lived a powerful king whose son was named Kama Pua'a. This child was difficult, to say the least. He was always chasing away his father's livestock and tearing up the royal taro patches. His father swore that if he ever caught him, he would kill him. To save himself, Kama Pua'a fled Oahu and moved to Maui and married Madame Pele, the fiery goddess. They were in love and soon had a son.
A sad event occurred; the son died. Madame Pele, as fiery as she was, went into a rage and started chasing Kama Pua'a. To escape, he started running down the slopes of Haleakala, towards the sea. When he did this, he turned into a giant hog. With Madame Pele gaining, Kama Pua'a called to his grandmother on Oahu, "Grandma, Grandma,what should I do?"
His grandmother answered his call, "Leap into the ocean and you shall save yourself." When he got to the bottom at Pa'uwela, he leaped into the ocean and changed into a fish. This ended his emotional experience with Madame Pele. Thus Pa'uwela, which means "calming of emotions", was named. The fish that Kama Pua'a turned into was a Humuhumunukunukuapua'a; a fish with a pig snout. And today,that fish is the Hawaiian state fish.

Legend of Black Rock

Story of Maui

Eons ago, there was born the Demigod Maui. His father was the holder of the heavens and his mother was the guardian of the path to the Netherworld. Maui was the only one of the children who possessed the powers of magic and miracles.
Maui was the smallest of the family. He had the quickest of mind and had an extremely rascally nature about him. Maui would take any advantage of both his friends and the gods in his quest to fulfill his schemes.
It is said that Maui was not a god fisherman. His brothers were much more skilled. They would often laugh at him for his poor success. In revenge, Maui used his cunning to fill his boat with catch at his brothers expense. Maui would position his boat so that when one of his brothers began to pull in a fish, he would distract them so that he could pull his line across theirs stealing their fish.
Maui's brothers could only marvel at their younger brother. However they soon caught on and refused to take him fishing with them. Maui's fortune turned against him. His mother then sent him to his father to obtain a magic hook.
"Go to your father. There you will recive the hook called Manaiakalani, the hook fastened to the heavens. When the hook catches land, it will raise the old seas together."
Maui returned with his hook. He joined his brothers in another fishing expedition. They jeered him and threw him out of the boat. When they returned, they were empty handed. Maui berated them. He stated that if they had allowed him to join them, they would have had better success. The brothers decided to allow him to join them in their canoe for another chance.
They paddled far into the deep ocean and threw their lines overboard. To their dismay, they only caught sharks. The brothers ridiculed Maui asking "Where are the fish you promnised?"
Maui then rose and threw his magical hook into the ocean.Chanting a spell of power, he commanded the hook to catch the Great Fish.
At once the sea began to move. Great waves rose around the canoe. Maui commanded his brothers to paddle with all their might and to not look back. For two days, Maui held taut the magic line and hook while his brothers kept paddling furiously. Suddenly from below the depths arose the tops of great mountains in a series of peaks that broke the surface of the ocean. Maui reminded his brothers to keep paddling mightly. Maui pulled mightly against the line and forced the peaks even farther out of the water.
One of his brothers then broke the command and gazed back in awe at the sight of the rising land. He stopped paddling and quickly the magic line began to slacken in Maui's hands. Before he could call out to his brothers, the line snapped and the magic hook was lost forever beneath the sea.
Maui chastised his brothers for their failure to paddle as he had commanded. "I had endeavoured to raise a great continent but because of your weakness I have only these islands to show for all my efforts."
And this is how the Islands of Hawai'i came to be...

Naupaka & Anemone Flowers

Naupaka and Anemone Flower Pele, who was the Hawaiian goddess of fire, loved a man who was a commoner, named Kaui, but he did not return her love; he loved her sister, Naupaka, instead.
In a fit of anger, rage, and envy, Pele sent boiling, hot lava to torment the man and her sister. Kaui ran down to the beach, but the lava killed him before he could enter the water. Meanwhile, Naupaka ran up the mountain, thinking that the lava could not flow upwards. But, she was mistaken, and where she was killed, a flower began to grow strangely--it was only half of a flower. Down by the beach, where Kaui lay dead, another half of a flower began to grow.
The Hawaiians say when you put these half-flowers together, the man and Pele's sister are reunited.

Maui

"The Valley Isle"

County Flower: "Lokelani" - Heavenly Rose

Population: Approximately 100,000 permanent residents.
3rd largest population in Hawaii

21 Degrees North of the Equator.

Most isolated land in the world.

Closest land mass to Hawaii is San Francisco, 2,400 miles.

100 Hawaiian Islands, Eight considered major:
Ni' i hau, Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, Maui, Lanai, Kaho'olawe,
and Big Island of Hawaii.

Highest peaks:
Puu Ulanla at the summit of Haleakala10,023 feet.
Second is Puu Kukui in West Maui 5788 feet.

More Interesting Pieces of Hawaii

Ni'ihan: The "forbidden" island known for exquisite shell jewelry.

Kaua'i: Magnificent sea cliffs and canyons distinquish the garden isle.

O'ahu: Waikiki Beach, State Capital, shopping and Pearl Harbor.

Moloka'i: Old charm, mule rides and famous Moloka'i bread.

Lana'i: Manele Bay, posh resorts and pine studded uplands.

Maui: Whales, art, Mt. Haleakala and 54 one lane bridge Hana Highway.

Kaho'olawe: Once Navy firing range, now dedicated to preservation of culture.

Hawai'i: The Big Island has an active volcano and wonderfully deverse scenery.

The Hawaiian Language

The Hawaiian alphabet, created by the New England missionaries, has only 12 letters; 5 vowels and 7 consonants.

alii - Hawaiian royalty
aloha - greeting or farewell
halau - school
hale - house or building
heiau - Hawaiian temple or place of worship
kahuna - priest or expert
kamaaina - old-timer
kapa - tapa, bark cloth
kapu - taboo, forbidden
keiki - child
lanai - porch or veranda
lamilomi - massage
mahalo - thank you
makai - a direction, toward the sea
mana - spirit power
mauka - a direction, toward the mountains
muumuu - loose-fitting gown or dress
ono - delicious
pali - cliff
paniolo - Hawaiian cowboy
wiki - quick