Up the coast

This morning I went for breakfast at a place near the harbor in Lahaina. The food wasn't what I had hoped, but the couple next to me pointed out a new arrival in the harbor: a nuclear sub. They had binoculars and could seen the crew on deck. I took these pictures for them:






I guess they didn't want to get close enough for good photos.

A little later I drove up the coast to Ka'anapali. A couple I met on Weds. had said that there was a park near the Westin, with good snorkeling, so I was on a dual mission: to get a shirt I could wear in the water (sunburn prevention) and to figure out what they had described. Ka'anapali has shops, the famous Hula Grill, fancy shops, resorts, and shops. There's a walkway along the beach past all the fancy hotels, and there are public access points to the beach between the hotels. The challenge is parking, of course, since you're not supposed to park in the lot at the shopping center. It turns out that there are about 23 public parking spots which the hotels have generously allocated to the masses. I'll have to figure out plan B another day. Meanwhile I found a shirt, which was good for getting the parking validated, and I walked a long way on the beachwalk to look at the possibilities, so I had to go get something at the Hula Grill to revive.

Then I drove further up the coast, where I saw this:



I thought it would be a good time to figure out how the auto-timer on my camera worked, so I pulled over, propped the camera up on the hood of the car on top of the camera bag, set the timer, and then tried to get back into the picture without falling over the cliff.



Luckily, an nice couple came along and I offered to take their picture together with their camera if they'd take one of me, so it worked out OK:


I uploaded pictures to flickr that aren't included here.