More of Hawaii....

Hawaiian sunset on our last day...why am I smiling??

A little recap of our trip: Christmas Day we took a brunch cruise around Lahaina bay with Pacific Whale Foundation. As the name suggests, we were expecting to see whales. We didn't. What we DID see were hundreds of spinner dolphins! They were so cool to watch jumping in the air and spinning around. Here's a link to my photostream on Flickr. There's our Maui pics and some pics from a HDI outting to Colorado Springs.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24473755@N07/

For JT's birthday (Dec 26th) we went snorkeling from Big Beach south of Makena on Maui. We saw several Humpback whales from shore (the pics are too small to publish here) and he tried his hand at bodysurfing. Pretty funny. At least he can now say he went to the beach on his birthday.

One of the other things we did was take the drive to Hana. The road was very windy (600+ turns) and beautiful old single file bridges (55+) and overall a beautiful wet drive. This first pic is one of the beautiful pools we saw along the way. Note: ALL of the pools along the way were noted "no trespassing" and/or were blocked from access.
This next picture is of black sand beach at Wai'anapanapa park. Beautiful beach and the next picture is of the really cool cave you can climb through.

This last picture is of the 7 sacred pools (aka O'heo Gulch). We weren't allowed to swim here either! (UGH). There were park rangers (it's in Haleakala National Park) and barbed wire keeping you away.
Mahalo for reading!