MAUI 2013 - DAY 8

One of Jeff's favorites beaches that we went to last time we were in Maui was the D.T. Fleming Beach Park so we had to check it out again this time.  He liked it last time because it had some good body surfing waves.  I think he was happy again this year with the waves and beach.

Cameron, Maleah and Jeff waiting for a wave to ride.......

Rena wasn't really too excited about being in the waves.  After being flipped around quiet a bit in the water at Black Rock she was much happier just jumping waves as they hit the beach......

Jeff and Maleah.......

Maleah, Rena and Cameron.....

Here's Jeff in a wave and Cameron running away from it!......

Cameron and Jeff both got this wave with Maleah running from it......

Cameron rode this one too!.......

It was a fun beach!  The big excitement while we were there was that Maleah lost her googles in the ocean 2 times and Jeff lost his once, but we found them all 3 times!  Jeff's were gone for a good couple minutes and we were sure we would never see them again, but he found them as they came back into shore with a wave.

 

After the beach we went back to the hotel.  The Honua Kai has some great pools and grounds to relax......

 

I think the girls are trying to pull Cameron into the water here......

Off to explore the pools......

This is the view from the pool looking up at our room.  We are up there somewhere on the third floor!.....

Another pool!......

After we got cleaned up and had dinner we went for a walk down the beach and watched this beautiful sunset.......

Good night!

MAUI 2013 - DAY 7

Time to move hotels!  We only had the room at The Marriott for one week so we had to check out of the Marriott and move to our new resort -- The Honua Kai Resort & Spa.  We, of course, had to check out in the morning and could not get into our new place until the afternoon so we found a nearby beach and hung-out for part of the day. 

We really liked this beach - called Airport Beach - it was close to our hotels, had easy parking and access to the beach and had some really good snorkeling.

It also had good sand for burying kids.......

Cameron decided to add a body part to Maleah that she doesn't actually have......

Cameron didn't like being buried.

Rena was all smiles......

After the beach and after we got into our room we spent some time in one of the pools at the new resort.....

MAUI 2013 - DAY 6

Another day at the hotel!  We swam.....

.....and swam......

.....and tried a little snuba -- in the pool!

That's me giving it a try.  The kids tried it a couple of different days, but I decided to try it this day -- and I LIKED it!  The next vacation we take near warm water we will definitely be giving this a try in the ocean!

Another beautiful rainbow..... 



.....and another one the same night......

MAUI 2013 - DAY 5

We took another snorkel trip out of Maalaea Harbor, but this time we boarded at 7:30am and went to the Molokini Crater and then to Turtle Town.  We were on The Trilogy boat -- it wasn't as big as the other one that we went on - everyone enjoyed the ride to Molokini, but the ride back was pretty rough.  The boat had this hammock to sit on.  In the calm waters you could sit and enjoy the view, but with the rough waters you had to hold on and expect to get wet! 

The captain let each of the kids drive the boat for awhile (on the way to Molokini when it was calm).......

Hanging on the boat......

Jeff and Rena were the last ones snorkeling at both of the dive sites again.....

We saw some really cool fish and turtles and had a great time on the boat!  Another fun outing! 

MAUI 2013 - DAY 4

BLACK ROCK!  We spent our day at Black Rock snorkeling, jumping waves, getting tossed around by waves, watching people jump off of the rock and people watching on the beach.  There were a few BIG waves that wiped us all out -- everyone learned not to turn your back on the ocean.  Maleah and Cameron got taken out by one wave and got back up just in time to get taken out by another big one.  I think we were cleaning sand out of their hair (and other body areas) for days......

After all of this fun we just went back to our hotel for the night -- we spent some more time in our pools and hot tubs and bbq'd some dinner.