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:: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 ::

Maui
03.08.05
Day Three

Today I had a leisurely breakfast and time for blogging and emails while Bruce went surfing at Launiupoko. I got in a good hour of beach time. He got back at lunch time where we made steak sandwiches, broiled with a little cheese, and chips.

We then headed down to Wailea, past the three Wailea golf courses, to the Wailea Grand Hotel, where Bruce's friend Ellen works in the spa...considered the best in the world! What a beautiful hotel, with dozens of different pools, one with a bar in the water in a grotto, slides, gardens, and from the 4th floor lobby, a winding outside garden that brings you back down to the beach!

dinner huts | courtyard | fountain | maui-boy

We saw Ellen just for a few minutes as it was really busy, and she mentioned she may be able to get us in for the Hydrotherapy package, maybe sometime next week.

After a complete walkthrough of the hotel grounds, we headed north to see the massive waves that were brewing. We stopped at a few places along the way, but the best waves to view were at Ho'okipa...where we stopped on Sunday. The waves were more massive today, and there were only sailboarders out, the waves were breaking a bit too fast for surfing, but I heard that Jaws (the famous beach down the road) was getting 30-40 foot waves!

I did get some great shots at Ho'okipa, however:

waves 1 | waves 2 | waves 3

We then left for Haiku (that's right folks!) for dinner at a small restaurant called Hana Hou, where I had Lau Lau (pork wrapped in dark green cabbage...like spinach...and steamed under hot coals), sticky rice, macaroni salad, lomi salmon (like caviche, or salsa, needed salmon cut into little chunks with onion, cilantro, and tomatoes) and a coconut desert, like a firm cube of jello with a chunk of fresh pineapple on top.

Then we headed up through some winding hillside roads to a store (for beer and water)
and then to the Tuesday night Jam Session at Donny's house (the Maui guitar player and friend of Willie Nelson, who was at the jam last week and played with Bruce). I played on one of Donny's guitars (a '57 reissue strat like mine, but with a little bit too high action for me) for the first set, then someone else
filled in on set two, and I returned to finish out the night in set three. A great little spot in the barn, setup much like a little club, with many friends
joining in to play, sing, or watch and dance. One woman played the digerido and a couple songs! The bass player Bill is a member of the band "New Riders of the Purple Sage." Songs were raggae and 2 and 3 chord rock jams, and everyone got their turns to solo. We were all quite sweaty by the end...Donny and I had a few dual solo tradeoffs, a good one that ended the night.

Back home for a snack and to bed!

DC

:: David 3/09/2005 04:21:00 PM [+] ::
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