Ryan's Chang: West Maui 2013

From Kahoolawe we anticipated coming back to Maui on Friday, at the end of the work week. So Katie and I decided since we don't work weekends we might as well grab a car and a room to explore more of Maui. Christian and Cory decided to stay as well! They brought fishing gear with him as well.

When we got back to the airport I went to pick up our car and the first thing we did was head to Da Kitchen to eat. Seth came along with us since he had booked a later flight. After eating we decided to head to our home which Christian arranged for us. It was free and it was more than accommodating. We stayed in a mansion in Lahaina with a jaccuzzi, pool, grills, and a full game room! Pretty good for free huh?

We were pretty beat from Kahoolawe so we decided to stay in and chill. The following day we slept in a little and decided to do a drive around the north western side of Maui. We went counter clockwise and had a few things in mind. The first thing was to go explore some waterfalls. The last time we went to Maui Katie and I spotted some falls while hiking Waihee Ridge Trail we decided to check it out. We definitely weren't disappointed, we headed makai and spotted two big swim holes 5 minutes into the hike. Seems like a lot of locals know of this spot since there was a lot of rubbish around. We headed down stream more and climbed down one waterfall. The second falls was a little sketchy for Katie so we decided to hang out here for a while. Cory explore more down stream and found several more waterfalls. After an hour of chilling and jumping off the waterfalls we decided to head mauka. We hit a well trodden path and after crossing the stream 13 times we hit our first waterfall. It was tucked away, and reminded me of Kakauki falls on the Big Island. We climbed up the side of the falls and hit a twin falls. After climbing the falls clouds started to roll in and I reminded everyone that there is a flash flood advisory, we should head out soon. We all decided that that was a good idea, but not after coming to a terminus at the next tiered waterfall. We quickly snapped our pictures and booked it out, climbing down the way we came and out the path back to the car. We probably made it out in record time!

We continued on our journey counter clockwise along the coast. The road was a little more narrow and a lot longer stretches of narrow than the road to Hana. The coast line reminded me of something from Ireland... or what I think Ireland would look like. Steep cliffs down to the coastline with pasture lands and lush valleys all along the road. Our next stop we made was Nakele blow hole. We watched as people went down to take pictures up close but we had other things in mind. We wanted to fish and swim in tide pools.

We drove for about 15 more minutes until a LOCALS ONLY spot. We scaled down a cliff with some ropes. We got to the bottom where there was a emerald green tide pool. Katie and I swam and hung out while Christian and Cory fished. We caught two fish and headed back home.

We picked a few steaks and veggies. We prepared the meat and gutted the fish. We took the fish outside and forgot the seasoning. With no one watching the fish outside next to the grill an imposter cat swiped one of our fish! The whole thing was gone and we never saw the cat for the rest of the night. To say the least we were pretty mad yet tripping out because it had never happened to any of us before.

The next morning we slept in even later but I was set on surfing since I brought my board over. I stopped at two places but that north swell that was supposed to fill in wasn't that big. I settled for Hookipa and surfed there for an hour or so.

Our Maui leg of the trip was pretty lax. Everyone was really tired yet we all didn't want to go back to work on Monday. Oh well till next time Maui!