Ka'anapali Beach, Maui
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Our first night at Ka'anapali Beach, we saw this beautiful sunset. |
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A view of the Ka'anapali Beach cliffs lit up with torches at night. |
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Our hotel, the Ka'anapali Beach Hotel, is toted as the "Most Hawaiian Hotel in Maui." It has an outdoor Tiki Bar and Grill, a nightly Hula Show and free lau printing, hula and lei making classes. |
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The swimming pool at the Ka'anapali Beach Hotel, where we spent an afternoon after checking out of the hotel. |
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Nina learning to make a spiritual lei out of ti leaves by braiding the leaves together. |
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Here we are sporting our new Maui T-shirts (Nina's from the Alice in Hulaland clothing store in Paia and Chris' from the Hasawaga General Store in Hana). |
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The free nightly Hula Show in the courtyard of the Ka'anapali Beach Hotel (with the Tiki Bar and Tiki Grill in the background). |
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The hula dancers in outfit number one. |
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The hula dancers still in outfit number one but with gourds. |
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The Tiki Bar, which makes a damn good Pina Colada (for $8 dollars!!) |
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The hula dancers in outfit number two with sticks. |
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Nina's favorite restaurant at Ka'anapali Beach... The Barefoot Bar and Grill, which is outdoors on the boardwalk, has thatch roofed tables, a band, sand floors and is right on the beach! (To be fair, Lelani's has better food!) |
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Ahhh... the Pearl Factory, where Nina caved to extreme curiosity and just had to pick a fresh oyster, open it up and see what's inside. Turns out, she was one of seven out of 100 people to choose an oyster with a blue/grey pearl! |
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There were a lot of small yachts anchored at Ka'anapali Beach. The island of Molokai is in the distance. |
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Here's another view of the rock barrier at the end of Ka'anapali Beach, where we went snorkeling and crazy tourists dive off the rocks. |
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One morning, we snuck into the super fancy Westin Hotel, two hotels down from ours, to go to their Starbucks. The hotel has a beautiful courtyard, swimming pool with waterfalls and outdoor cafe. |
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The Westin even has pink flamingos!! |
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We saw Unicorn Fish while snorkeling at Ka'anapali Beach. |
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The rocks along Ka'anapali Beach were crowded with snorkelers but we were surprised to come across some scuba divers! |
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Nina calls these the Needle Fish. |
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We're pretty sure that's a Yellow Tang. |
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We saw several Puffer Fish, which was pretty exciting. We never got to see them in "full puff." |
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More of the infamous striped fish swimming around the coral and red sea urchins. |