The last full day of fun

We got up early in the morning in order to make it to a time-share meeting in Kahana. By going to this meeting we were supposed to get a free dinner cruise that night. It turned out, the organizers would not even let us attend the meeting because we were not home owners, but they ended up sending us on a cruise anyway. So we had more time to explore that morning. We headed up North, to Honolua bay.

Paul really wanted to surf there, but it looked kind of scary to me. Not much of a beach, and waves were higher than I would care to be on myself. But the real problem was-we could not transport a surf board here because it did not fit into our ugly little white car. So we thought Paul would try some other place where surf rental places are close to the beach. We ended up snorkeling in Honolua bay. The beach was shaped in a little lagoon and was only visited by die-hard surfers and snorkelers as it seemed (maybe it was because it was covered with rocks!). Needless to say, we where proud to be among that group. We read in one of the guides that snorkeling should be good here if the weather condition allowed.

As we were changing, we talked to one of the guys who just got out of the water. He told us that if we go as far as the surfers we would see turtles at the bottom of the ocean. As we embarked on our journey, we found great coral formations, areas with amazing colorful fish, places where all you see is deep blue in all directions, and once again we swam with a turtle. It was an amazing place, though I was a bit nervous about how far from the shore we ended up. One comfort was---there were a couple of boats anchored in this lagoon during our swim. I figured they would not leave us in peril. But this was definitely our favorite snorkeling site.

After we had enough of Honalua bay, we headed toward what we heard to be the best beach on Maui. Too bad I can not remember the actual name of the place, but it was just above Napili bay. Surfing did not work out here, either. So we enjoyed the beach---I got in my last 20 min. of snorkeling as Paul fed the pigeons from our lunch leftovers. The beach really was pretty: bluest water, white sand, palms and plenty of sunshine! I just had to ignore the construction sight behind us.

Then off we went to Lahaina again. The surfing never did work out. We just laid on the beach for a while. It was nice. I told Paul that we had to fit that into our schedule. We were always too busy finding new fun places that we forgot to do some sunbathing. After about an hour of that, we were off to change and catch our boat for our dinner cruise.

Once again, we were on a boat of the Pacific Whale Foundation. The crew got us our premium seat right on the front deck of the boat where we met the sunset, ate an excellent dinner and shared memories. It was a perfect ending to a perfect vacation! We never would have done this little trip on our own, but thanks to the nice time-share lady, Rebecca, we got this chance!

However, the story does not end here. When we got home, I told Paul that we used to go night swimming when I was at the black sea. So we decided to give it a try. At 10 pm, we ran to the beach across the street from our resort and got in some swimming. It was romantic and frightening at the same time. The ocean seamed like such an abyss at that hour, but the moon was out and it was fun to see all the lights of the town's night life.