Couple Days of Catch-up

Wednesday was Beach Day.  We got a cabana, a cooler, a spot on the beach and stayed there all day.  People watching is fun.  We just tried not to give anyone else something to watch (or video).  Such as getting pounded into the surf like a rag doll.  But we negotiated the surf timing with great skill - citing no incidents.  Some of the waves were pretty significant, making for screams, soaked stuff and decimated sand castles. We had better luck due to solid site planning by Paul the cabana dude.


Thursday we took a drive up the mountain a ways - it got cooler and cloudier.  Driving through Kula was interesting - a kind of neat little town up around 3,000 feet or so with a great view of the ocean and up the coast.  The road got quite windy, and we reached our destination - the Tedeschi Winery.  We did a quick tasting (cause that's all the time it took) - grabbed a couple of bottles to take home, then wandered across the road from the Ulupalakua Ranch Store for a bite to eat. 

We had to laugh at the signs at the store warning us not to feed 'Barney' the official welcome cat.  "I'm not fat - I'm just big boned".  But apparently, Barney has no willpower and loves the BBQ. 

Below, Barney enjoys a nap in the yard.  That is one relaxed cat...

Background: Tasting Room  Foreground: Barney

Cattle Pasture - Maui Style. Coastline below - Lanai way in the distance

The country up here is interesting - lots of cattle, and they have a great view of the ocean and high-dollar real estate from their pastures.  They seemed happy.  I guess they should be.

Hula Grill for light goodies to eat this evening.  Jake and Elwood entertained us with great music. 

OK - it was not Jake and Elwood but something like that, but with a Maui twist...'Sweet Home...Lahaina....'

Jeff took this pic underwater while snorkeling

Interesting beaded arts at one of the Whalers Village stores.  If we had seen this earlier, we would probably not have ordered the calamari...

 Friday - we went back on-board one of the Trilogy catamarans to do a 'snorkeling and so forth' trip. This included: coffee and cinnamon rolls, snorkeling, some tasty salt water (urrp), grilled chicken lunch, more snorkeling (Mom would have yelled at us - we did not wait an hour), rain, dolphins and a nice sail home early afternoon.  Captain Kevin (from Mankato - same skipper as last time) and his crew: Carrie, Kendall and Byron took good care of us.  Most everyone made it back.
 

Are those sharks down there?

"I hope not"

Hey Cap'n...wait for me...

Light snacks at Paradise Grill not far from the resort.  Rained while we were there - rainbows on the way back home - this one over the Ka'anapali Golf Course.





Back to the Sheraton to relax and enjoy more Luau music.

Aloha for tonight...