Postcards from Maui - Day 1

Napili Point, Moloka'i on the horizon

Favorite phone greeting, heard while calling a friend the morning after arriving on Maui: “The waves are firing. I’ll call you back when it’s flat.”

Travel to Maui took longer than usual  – by way of Salt Lake City, but already so worth it. We hardly got out of bed this morning when we started seeing honu (Hawaiian green turtles) and dolphins in Honokeana Bay, then humpback whales breaching and spouting only a half mile off shore. 

Discovered terrific breakfast & coffee: Soup Nutz in Ka'anapali. Also serves lunch and dinner, full bar and live music.  Located in just another strip mall, the not-so-scenic view is the parking lot, Lower Honoapi’ilani Road and a resort across the street. But what a meal. Perfect, fluffy veggie omelet, side of Portuguese sausage spiced just right, and a short stack that may have been “short,” but was also mighty wide. The coffee was fresh and flavorful. As the Mauians say, “Broke da mouth!”

Next, we found “All About Fish” (Truth, Lies, Bait & Tackle), where we geared up for snorkeling. Check out the vid at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR-7EDIqQvo.

Before the day ended, we snorkeled in Napili bay, seeing loads of reef fish and a few interesting corals. Magical and enchanting. We made it back to the shoreline to witness the sunset over Lana‘i and stayed for twilight. That’s when the colors distilled into deeper oranges and magentas.