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The grounds of the Maui Banyan. We spent our wedding trip of 2008 here, and returned for our first anniversary as well. They take great care of the grounds, and the buildings. And beautiful Kamaole II Beach is right across the road. It was an amazing base camp for our Hawaiian Adventures, and we cannot wait to go back again.
You can read about our stay at the Maui Banyan, as well as the rest of our adventures throughout the Hawaiian Islands on our travel blog:
hawaiianadventures.wordpress.com/2009/12/02/maui-banyan-h...
The green sea turtles off Black Rock in Maui were friendly and plentiful. Very graceful animals, they mostly ignored the people admiring them. Until someone brought out some sea weed. I was told the clicking sound was made by shrimp that live in the rocks.
Sunset on Kamaole Beach on Maui. Swimmers and boogie board riders are enjoying the water. West Maui is visible in the distance on the right.
Maui Island in distance from Hawaii Island. See the Panoramic Earth Hawaii Tour for more panoramic images of Hawaii.
This was part of some tide pools out in front of The Gazebo, a popular breakfast spot out in West Maui.
There wasn't a whole lot of life in the pools, but I liked the crescent shape of these urchin, and they were in some nice soft light in the shade of a boulder. I didn't realize at the time how much color was hiding under the water!
There was glare on the water that made everything look kind of muddy (check out the unedited original). This would have been a perfect use of a polarizing filter to cut the reflected sunlight (I even own one!), but I either didn't bring it or didn't think to put it on :(. I managed to workaround the glare in processing by pushing the exposure and pulling up the blacks to add more contrast back in.
View from Merriman's restaurant, Kapalua, Maui. (For Alphabet Soup Reprise members--from the archives, not taken this week.)
Maui, Hawai'i, USA
3/1981
moved to scan some old slides (unfortunately most Ekatchromes quite faded) from Maui
silversword, Argyroxiphum sandwicense, growing with nene bush, Comprosma ernodeodes (coffee family). We never saw both together on the big island. The silverswords and 2 other genera evolved from a tarweed, probably from California. (Its estimated that 1 plant from outside the Hawaiian Islands reaches them and becomes established every 20,000 years or so.) Seems like great example of convergent evolution with similar fuzzy, high elevation plants, e.g. Espledetia in South America (as seen in Kricher’s book).
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