Maui

We woke up early and drove to a park with a toilet. Then on further to Kamaole Beach Park III which had tables and nice shade trees, so we had coffee there.

While swimming I had 2 big green turtles swim with me. Darryl went snorkeling and convinced me to go and see the bommies with lots of fish, sponges etc. It was just lovely. We saw more whales. Darryl enjoyed the bodysurfing, and it was quite a popular area with lots of boats, paddle boards, and canoeists. I am pretty sure I also saw dolphins.

The "Touch of Cold Water Community" care van arrived and about 6 homeless people from the park lined up. Afterwards, one of them have Darryl his peanut butter and jelly sandwiches as he had too many!

While having an early lunch we watched the 'show' with a pod of whales breaching and spurting out around a canoeist.

A tiny whale tail on the horizon line

This boat went past oblivious to the whale behind it

I thought the Iao Valley looked like an interesting place to visit so we went there next.

Parking was $5 which wasn't too bad. It was about a 20 min walk up to the lookout and down through the Polenesian gardens with bananas, taro, sugar cane, etc. I took photos for a couple of families.

We then tried to go to Haleki'i & Pihana Heiau but it was closed off so we went and parked outside Starbucks to use the free WiFi and pack up.

The van was left at the airport parking, and it wasn't until we were on the plane that we realised that we had both left our walking sticks in it! Also 3 mins before boarding we got the message from Shane that the COVID-19 situation had deteriorated, and Canada was contemplating closing their borders. It really worried us, but our luggage was already on board, so we had no choice but to board the plane and we flew to Kaui, picked up the car and drove the 45 mins to Princeville and our accommodation in the pouring rain. I spent a couple of hours trying to work out our options, while Darryl slept.