Last Few Days...

...and we have a lot to squish in! There's a wind blowing from the south (and all sorts of bad weather) which has churned up the ocean and created poor diving conditions so we've postponed our ray dive until Thursday morning. This is our last day to do it as we fly out Friday night so hopefully things clear up by then.

We went snorkeling yesterday at Black Rock and the visibility was horrible. Morgan took some video - if it doesn't take a million hours to upload, I'll post a link to it here. We did see a herd of goatfish, though, and the requisite pufferfish following us around. They seem to be really friendly (these aren't the spiny pufferfish, these guys are cute).

Tomorrow we're supposed to be going on a 'snorkel cruise' to Molokini & out to swim with dolphins with the Pacific Whale Foundation - but we're going to check today and make sure they're still going.

Fortunately the whales are still putting on daily & nightly shows so even though we can't do any snorkeling and can't really work on our tans, we can still marvel at the whales! They come so close to shore, it's crazy!

Pictures are always interesting, though, so here are some newish ones:



The jungle we drove through on the Road to Hana. Can you spot the road?



There are lots of waterfalls on the side of the road...like this one!



One of the many 'one lane bridges' on the road...this one has a weir. This side of the island gets something like 370 inches of rain annually so they catch the rainwater in these weirs and transport it to the rest of Maui for irrigation.



See the black sand beach on the left?



I wanted to take some with us but it's in a state park and it's illegal.



The blow-hole! Despite the angry ocean waves, it wasn't blowing while we were there.



In the Arboretum there were tons of amazing trees - like these Rainbow Eucalytpus trees.



It looks like someone painted them.



For all our nerdier blog readers...the Geometry Tree!



And lastly, the sunrise from this morning...the nicest part of the day is always the sunrise. We went for a run this morning and almost died from heat exhaustion.