Maui: Day 286

This Saturday Kara and I left the house at 8am to go snorkeling at an awesome spot called the aquarium. It is a large cove in the La Perouse area that has TONS of fish and lots of neat underwater lava formations. To get there, you have to hike for about 30 minutes on a very rough lava rock trail that is hard to follow at times. The first time I snorkeled at the aquarium, I took Julie and David and we lost the trail probably 5 or more times! This time we only lost the trail one time each way… much better!

When we got to the cove, we geared up and I hopped into the water… BRRRRR!! I was in shock for like 5 minutes just trying to warm up while Kara eased herself into the water (with a wetsuit on). Kara hadn’t been to the aquarium before, so I showed her some of the cool places, like an underwater lava rock gully that is very fun to swim through. We headed out to sea a bit and swam into a rough area where the waves were crashing against the rocks and we spotted a turtle hanging out. We were probably in the water for about 45 minutes when we were ready to head back.

After we hiked back to our Jeep, we were both pretty hungry so we drove back to town and bought some Koala Moa chicken. Koala Moa is a rotisserie chicken stand that sets up in the Long’s Drugs parking lot every Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday and serves some of the most delicious chicken you can imagine!! So we got our yummy lunch and drove home to eat it. It was around noon by the time we finished lunch, and we still wanted to spend some more time outside, so we took our beach chairs and towels out to our backyard and laid in the sun for a while. The sun was hot and it was sapping my energy, so I went inside and laid on the bed. Shortly after, Kara shows up and laid on the bed, and we end up taking a 3 hour nap! Getting up early to hike and snorkel is tiring work!

Once we got up from our nap, we got ready and drove out past Lahaina to the Ka’anapali Beach Hotel. I had read online that they have a free nightly hula show, and we wanted to check it out. The show started at 6pm and the seating was outside so it was a little chilly (for us wimps). We ordered hamburgers and watched the show which was pretty good. The music was very enjoyable, the dancing was ok (two dancers, not a whole lot of variety). After the show, we drove home and hung out before going to sleep.

A pretty spectacular day for Hawaiian vacation… or for a regular Saturday…