Canyon Vistas

Drove up to canyon vistas of the valley today. Great views! Palm Springs below. Curvy roads all the way up and back with lots of rocks and cactus.

Palm Springs Hike

Bill, Mark and I taking a break from hiking. Water!!

Climbing the rocks!

Stay on the trail you fool'

Palm Springs Waterfall

Made it up the canyon to the springs. Oasis in the middle of this rocky canyon.

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Palm Springs

Out for a weekend trip to see friends in Palm Springs, CA. Never been here. Went on a 4 mile hike up Murray Canyon to see some springs. Challenging with rocks and desert sun.

Video of Blue Striped Snapper

Getting a few underwater videos in from dive trip. Mark took this one of a school of Blue Striped Yellow Snapper. Awesome to see hundreds all swimming in sync fascinated by us. If you listen carefully, you can hear the grey whales mating call in the distance.

Goodbye to Maui 

Great shot of our last day in Hawaii. Sitting at the airport now for our flight back to the mainland. Been a great trip. Will post a few underwater shots this week. Hope you have enjoyed the pics and blog!!

Happy New Year!

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Sea Cave

Great little sea cave off the coast of west Maui. Would love to see this in a kayak.

Copter ride

Copter ride over west end of Maui. Ride lasted about an hour. Great aerial views.

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Molokai coastline

Molokai waterfalls

Much of this part of the island is uninhabitable. Steep terrain and waterfalls. Pretty scenery.

Molokai cliffs

Pristine coastline off Molokai. Be nice to hike this area one day!! 

Rainbow over Maui

A weather system started to come in which changed our copter ride to west end of island and Molokai. Nice rainbow over the ocean. Lots of wind surfers tearing it up !

Maui Helicopter Tour

Last day here. Our flight isn't until 950 pm tonight. Booked our helicopter tour on way to airport.

Sunset at beach

Last stop was at a beach in Wailea. Stayed for about 2 hours and watched this beautiful sunset. The island you see in the distance is one of the islands we scuba dived. Will post some amazing underwater shots when we return early next week! 

Was a great day to spend the first day of 2011! Why cant we live like this??

Happy New Years day!

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Pic at Haleakala Peak

Made it to the top (via car!) of the crater. Elevation about 10,000 feet. Lots of lava rocks and a big crater. Like a moon shot in a movie. Could see neighboring islands in the distance. Will see this and more Sunday via our helicopter tour of this and the waterfalls at Hana.

Clouds of Maui

We drove the switchback roads on way to see Heleakala volcano. Halfway at about 5000 feet, we past the clouds. You can see part of Iao Valley peak in the distance. That zone in the clouds became cooler and foggy.

Iao valley

We went with Greg and Ted today on an excursion tour of the island. This is a pic of Iao Valley, on the West island of Maui. Full of tropical plants and a creek with some rapids. Very scenic.

View from hotel

About to head out for the day down the coast, hiking and beach. Sure to see some great sites! This is our hotel in Lahaina.

New Years Luau

Went to a luau tonight for dinner. Authentic food and dance. Really nice place overlooking the water.

Happy New Year!!!!