Day 2 - Maluaka Beach

For some reason, my brain decided to wake up at 2:41am. It did not shut down again for the rest of the early morning. Since I couldn’t sleep, I ended up playing catch up on some emails and then decided to go grocery shopping at a 24 hour store. I looked up and found a Safeway about 3 miles out. Before I was able to get out of the door, Anna called out and asked what I was doing up so early. Ten minutes later after some coffee and Anna and I were off to the Walmart. It was opening at 6am, so we rolled around until then. A few bills later we had the back of the car filled and headed to the Safeway for some squid.

Thomas was up when we got back and it wasn’t much longer before Olivia woke. LT had been itching since we got here to wet the line and now that we had the weapons ready – off we went. The girls still needed a little bit of time to get ready, so what better way for us to spend the time but fish?

Thirty minutes into to fishing and the girls rang. LT and I packed up the rigs and we were excited to hit Turtle Town. Turtle Town is a general section near Maluaka Beach where the sea turtles tend to congregate. Apparently there are around 20 or so local sea turtle that stay in the area, along with others that come in seasonally. Beautiful beach…

All of us snorkeled a bit, but the water was a bit rough. It made the water cloudy and visibility wasn’t that great. LT and I tried our luck near some of the rock formations, but weren’t able to hook up at all. We ended playing around there until around 11:30am and decided it was lunch time. Hunger was impacting all of us.

Ko Restaurant at the Fairmont of Maui was the target. Let me just say – We hit the bullseye!!! Wow! The food here was very, very yummy! Got great ideas of things to do on the island from our fantastic waitress, Selina. She had a lot of great suggestions, which we are ready to try.

After Ko, we drove down the road a couple of miles to Poolenalena Beach. Definitely coming back to this small adorable beach. I snorkeled a bit and watched a sea turtle for about 5 minutes. What an amazing creature! We hung on the beach for about 45 minutes before heading back to our condo. Entering the condo, the kids grabbed some towels and off to the pool they went.

It wasn’t long before the kids were back up and got some gear and headed down to the beach. Anna and I stayed in the condo for just a bit and then headed out for a drive only to be called by Olivia stating there were some turtles resting on the beach. We turned around and went to check out the turtles. They were far bigger than I imagined. These guys come up on the beach and rest for several hours. You are to stay 15 feet away from the turtles. We of course did not know this as you see Olivia posing with one. Anna met a lady who volunteers for the turtle rescue and she gave us the low down.

Drove around a bit more afterwards with the kids to explore Kihei and get our bearings. Found some neat place we are going to check out in the upcoming days.