May, 2016

May, 2016.  The weather on Maui has been delightful.  High temperatures are in the lower 80s, and nighttime lows are around 70.  We are very comfortable in the Treetop condo without using the air conditioning.  The fresh Hawaiian breezes are blowing through the condo, and the ceiling fans are running on “slow” just to stir the air a bit. 
I awoke before dawn today, due to the jet lag.  My wife was still asleep in the bedroom, so I went into the living room, turned on the lights, made coffee in the kitchen, all without bothering her.  When she awoke, we had breakfast on the balcony (this condo has a narrow balcony, barely wide enough for a table and chairs, but still nice for eating outside) and watched the sun rise.  We had planned to take our daily walk at 7 AM, but there was a fine mist of rain then.  We call these very fine mists “Pineapple juice”, and many people ignore this and go about their outside plans anyway, but it was predicted to only last for a short while.  Sure enough, by 7:30 it had stopped, and we did our daily walk, 3.6 miles along the beach in one hour, 5 minutes.  It was sunny, cool, with a nice wind off of the ocean.  Later in the morning, we swam in the ocean for about a half-hour, then came in to the pool area to warm up in the hot tub and swim in the heated pool. 
Jacarandas are in bloom now, and we will go to see them this weekend.  The Jacarandas are trees that are covered with purple flowers at this time of year – they look so beautiful.  They grow on the slopes of Haleakala, the 10,000 foot tall dormant volcano on Maui.  Jacarandas grow at about the 3,000 foot level.  If I can get a good picture, I will post it here.
 We had lunch yesterday at the nearby Plantation Restaurant, in the clubhouse of the world-famous Kapalua golf course.  The food was great - I had grilled mahi-mahi, and my wife had crab eggs benedict.  The view is of the gorgeous green golf course on a hillside sweeping down to the ocean.
More will be posted soon….