| 3/26- Some more whale photos from our boating adventure last Friday on the Maalaea Bay Harbor in Maui, Hawaii. As you may or may not recall, Joy invited us to join her 27th b-day celebration. What a way to say happy freaking birthday. Watching the whales was such a humbling experience. |
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| The North Pacific Humpback Whales typically arrive mid-December and head back to Alaska in the spring when they get hungry. They don't eat during their entire stay on Maui. |
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| I started thinking about the lack of food and the life of a female whale during her winter stay in Maui. I realized that during their visits to the island, the females arrive heavy with calf, obtains no food, undergoes labor and then nurses their young, Good times! |
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| The boys also remain hungry, but their stays involves pursing the ladies i.e. ramming one another for some tang, swimming and singing. Male humpbacks are considered incredible singers, hitting frequencies out of range of the human ear. Their songs carry for miles whereupon they are repeated. |
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| One passenger on the cruise, said he met a woman that could commune with animals. She said via underwater communication, the whales in Maui understood the atrocities that their cousins near Japan were encountering. I asked why the Maui whales didn't tell the Japanese whales to come on up. He didn't know the answer. Would be my plan. Apparently whales like to give birth where they were born. That might be a factor. |
| 3/23 -- Near the end of our weekend visit on the Big Island, we concluded that none of the beaches compared to Maui's. Then we stumbled upon Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park. Seeing as it is 3 miles south of Keahole International Airport and 3 miles north of Kailua-Kona, It was inevitable we would stop there at some point. Driving back near the airport, we looked for, as of yet, unseen spots in which to spend our last 2 hours before heading off the island. |
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As we walked the path leading back to the water, my sentiment that Maui ruled deepened with each step. |
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Even this cool little section did little to change my opinion. |
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And then we stepped out to see this beach. When I was a child, a shy child I should add, I loved to read books. I forever lamented that I wasn't shipped wrecked on an island with a black stallion or the back of my wardrobe didn't lead to another world full of exotic creatures. It has been over twenty years since I entertained such thoughts. I think the old saying goes, as soon as you stop looking it will find you. On the Big Island, I found a secret door into another world. It is called Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park. As we stepped through it, I realized it might not be full of exotic creatures, but it seemed out of this world. |
| 3/22 -- Here is another photo from Joy's birthday party this past Friday. The slogan for the day was "Lanai or bust." I guess it was a bust as we never quite made it. |
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| The birthday girl man's the wheel. |
| 3/22 -- We are about to land on the Big Island. My first thoughts about this island were beautiful water, gnarly land with a silent hope the whole place didn't look like this. |
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| While, I still like Maui 100 times more, the Big Island is very beautiful with plenty of lush fields, rain forests, and towns. there isn't a great spot to participate in wind sports. |
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