Maui, Day 3, 2021

Woke up around 6am and had some coffee and relax time on the Lanai.

Our plan for today was to head out to a snorkeling spot for the morning. Mike rented snorkel gear, a couple of cool backpack beach chairs and umbrella at a shop that sends out an email every morning with a “snorkel report.” In the email they rate the popular snorkel sites and this morning they rated Kapalua Bay an 8 out of 10.

The last time we were on Maui the waves here were huge. This crescent shaped bay was very smooth today. Way to go “snorkel report”!

We swam out into the left side of the of the bay and the along the left edge of the crescent. I wanted to see a sea turtle so we decided to swim across the width of the bay where it was deeper. Mike spotted a medium sized green sea turtle about 3/4 across the bay. We swam with it for 15 minutes or so just watching it swim and surface for a breath (which for some reason is super cute) and swim some more. It’s a real treat to get to swim with these cool creatures. (Videos to come as soon as I get the footage off my GoPro underwater camera.)

After around 45 minutes of snorkeling we relaxed on the beach for a bit. By this time it was getting very crowded so we decided we were ready to head out and grab some lunch.

We found a little strip mall with a restaurant called Fond and grabbed a couple of decent burgers togo and headed back to the condo to eat on the Lanai.

After a nap I wanted to run over to the ABC Store to grab a new water bottle since I lost mine at the beach. Or so I thought. I found it in the Jeep this evening.

Did I say Jeep? Why yes I did.

Rental cars are scarce on the island (and pricey) so we reserved the “manager’s special” where they choose for you depending on what they had. I was secretly hoping for a Jeep. Tada!

Anyway, we went to the ABC Store and got a few things to bring back along with a second water bottle. I now have two.

We headed down to the pool and played darts. Mike hustled me good. He didn’t even hit the board with our practice round and then did this at the beginning of the game.

He ended up creaming me.

A quick dip in the pool and soak in the spa and we were ready for dinner.

We returned to this food truck for the third time. One might say we were…hooked…? One did say that. It was Mike. And then his brother used the same joke. I’m pissed they both beat me to it.

We had Grilled Island Fish with Kula Greens and brown rice. Overall it was tasty despite the fish being overdone.

Bellies full it was time to watch the sunset. It was slightly more cloudy tonight which sometimes can make for a pretty sunset. This was the best of the trip so far.