Sunday, September 24, 2017

Maui–Snorkeling

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One of the reasons we’d chosen Maui was for the exceptional snorkeling, which we really enjoy.  We snorkeled almost every day of the trip, and we were not disappointed!  Our first major outing was at Black Rock, where we just snorkeled from the beach.  We saw a great variety of fish and coral, a number of sea turtles, and a hypnotic school of fish undulating below us.

Monday, September 18, 2017

Northwest Maui

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We celebrated our 15th anniversary in Maui, Hawaii last October.  We’d been to the big island of Hawaii and Kauai a little over 15 years earlier, and while we loved both, we wanted to try something new.  It’s surprising how different each island is, given how close they are.  We’d found local variations on each island, and Maui was no exception.  We chose to rent an apartment for the week, eventually settling on one between Kaanapali and Kapalua. Maui is a small enough island that you can explore it all from a central point, and while there were various areas that tempted us, the location on the Kanapaali coast gave us a good amount of options, with a supermarket in nearby Kapalua and all of the restaurants and shops of Kanapaali within a short drive. An added bonus was that there was a turtle cleaning station just out from our condo where we could watch turtles and snorkel with them.