Not much to report from Day 8; had to pack up in Maui and had to unpack in Oahu. Boys had pool time early in Maui…not much went on once we got here though.
Day 9 began with a trip out to Hanuama Bay; President Obama and his family were there on Tuesday (the day the state park is closed to the public…). You have to be there early; if you get there too late and the parking lot is full, you don’t get in. We made it in time.
The obligatory Iphone panorama. Light green near the beach is sand; brown is coral reef….the snorkeling attraction of this bay.
The crappy part about the snorkeling is that we completely mistimed it; came at low tide. Really couldn’t get out over much of the reef, and, pretty frustrating overall. The good part was, well, the water was crystal clear and the fish here were bigger than any we’ve seen on the trip so far.
After snorkeling, we drove across (instead of around the perimeter) to get back to our hotel on the west side. Stopped at Pali Lookout; Suzanne recalls coming up here with her family and barely being able to stand for the wind; today it was dead calm.
The panorama from the Pali Lookout
After this, we went down and drove through the Punchbowl Crater cemetery, better known as the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. Had planned on just driving through, but, Matthew and Christopher had a lot of questions so, we stopped and looked at a few headstones and talked about it (there were two with ‘unknown’ and one with ‘unknown..USS West Virginia’). We’ll be at Pearl Harbor later this week…
