Road to Hana

This had to be the most memorable experience on Maui. Though the road is only 52 miles long, it contains approximately 620 curves. Because the road is narrow and can be quite stressful to drive, we signed up for a van tour. Our driver, Iwi, picked us up promptly at 7 am and took us to Kahului (the business center) for a continental breakfast. After breakfast, we met everyone in the van along the beginning of the highway. Iwi moved to Maui in 1993 and has been driving the road ever since (and does one hell of a job). He filled us in on many of the sights, and made the drive quite special. For those that get the chance to drive to Hana, I strongly recommend taking a van tour as the road is quite narrow in many places with several tight hairpin turns. Even though we covered just over 100 miles, it was a full day as we did not return to our condo till after 7 pm.

Rainbow Tree.

Hana highway cutting through the forest.

First of many black sand beaches.

Doug (my brother) and Kelly on the beach.

Waterfalls everywhere!

There she blows! This was a blowhole in the rocks.

Here are a few of the flowers that grow on this side of the island.

Even the flowers flower!

This is a picture of the seven pools. On a typical day you can swim in the pools, but because of all the rain in the mountains when we were there, the current was running around 30 knots and the pools were closed.