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:: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 ::

Maui
03-07-05
Day Two

This morning I woke up early (for me) at ten of 6, and decided I wasn't going to sleep anymore...bird song and neighbor's movements put a period on that thought. Got up, made coffee (Kona Dark: Sansei's French Roast mmmmmmm)and had a bagel and cream cheese (how ethnically local of me) and did my daily email and post, and edited some more photos.

At 8:30 Bruce picked me up and we headed for surfin' territory...the Kona winds were up today! We headed North towards the West Maui Mountains, and stopped at a low key surf beach
Launiupoko...but the waves weren't really up or breaking right. We continued North past Kapalua to "S"-turns, then on to Honolua Bay where the waves were 6-10 feet, and many people were surfing. I could see the Plantation course from here...we'll be playing golf there on Wednesday.

We climbed down the cliff a bit for a better view.

After we had our fill, we drove back to Lahaina to do a little mall shopping (board pants, shirts, knick-knacks, cigars!) , then off to downtown Lahaina for Lunch at the Pioneer Hotel (history). I ordered a grilled mahi-mahi sandwich with fries and a draft Kona Golden Ale. Bruce ordered fried calamari, and while my meal was good, the calamari plate was huge and amazing! An incredible crunchy crust and large chunks of calamari that were so tender, and never got rubbery (you can tell I had more than a couple from Bruce's plate...and there were too much for one person anyway...). They came with cocktail, sweet and sour and tarter sauce, the last two were the best combinations, especially after Bruce put a little tobasco in the s&s!

Replica of Historic Carthoginian whaling ship

the boys

On the way back to the condo (Kihea) we noticed some people
"kite surfing" so we stopped and I took a few photos. Didn't
get a lot of shots of them flipping off the waves, but they did it well!

kite surf 2 | kite surf 3 | kite surf 4 | kite surf 5 |

We did a little work at Jill's and after she got out of work we switched cars, and did a little necessity shopping. Bruce dropped me at the condo and went back to work at Jill's. I did some posting and email and photos, and waited for B to return
for dinner. We did a little half-hour swim before sunset with some intense body-surfing...waves were getting fairly hairy right here at the beach. We went back to the condo for cameras and back to the beach for a magnificent sunset!

sunset 1 | sunset 2 | sunset 3

We went shopping for steak, wine, and potatoes, and grilled the steak smothered in pepper, and the potatoes broiled with olive oil and garlic. Apres dinner was cigars and single malt...mine was an Arturo Fuente Grand Reserva robusto (very dark and spicy).

We were running late, and left at 10 for a club called Hapa's about 10 minutes down the road. There we saw "Willy K" a very famous local performer. He plays guitar (mostly acoustic) and sings. He plays an amazing range of songs (Devil Went Down to
Georgia, Steve Miller, etc.). The second set was classic R&B, except for a beautiful tender version of "Somewhere over the Rainbow" done true to the original, yet with a few nice chord substitutions. The set was one continuous groove from "You gotta think," "Respect," (man he sang right in Aretha's range), "Son of a Preacher Man," "Papa was a rolling stone,"

:: David 3/08/2005 04:00:00 PM [+] ::
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