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Maui - Kepaniwai Park Our first stop on a very cloudy morning. This park had areas devoted...
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A closer look at the architecture A very lovely, interesting and ornate building style
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Garden in the Valley The Iao Valley has gardens along the river with many interesting features.
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Wild Cats On all the islands we visited there were wild cats. Brought in on ships to...
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One of the interesting plants found here I really needed a good book on plants and flowers. The problem is that...
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Partial view of the River Here is the river that runs through the Iao valley in the next photo you will...
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Iao Needle A interesting landmark in this valley. Again this valley is tied to many...
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Bird of Paradise This does look like a very plain forerunner of the exotic Bird of...
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A Beautiful flame point Would love to have caught this one and taken it home. What a lovely...
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Flame Tree Love to see these colorful trees. In the forests they stand out and add such...
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Maui Tropical Plantation Our next stop was the Tropical Plantation where they had planted most of the...
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Red GInger Another type of red ginger. Great color in the foliage.
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Sugar Cane Maui is the only island left still producing any significant amount of sugar...
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A Yellow Spider? Lovey flower reminded me a little of a spider crysanthimum but no...
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Bougenvilla Beautiful blooms! Why can't mine at home flower like this. I have...
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Coconut opening demonstration Our guide was to give us an amazing demonstration of how to easily open a...
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The Hardest Part Think a lot of this is having the right tools. After the fiberous...
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Coconut Tree They told us that the most dangerous place on the islands to sleep was...
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Bread Fruit tree
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Banana Plants
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Wild Chickens Even more numerous that the wild cats are the wild chickens. Brought to the...
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Gardens around Resturant at Plantation A very nice meal is served here. We stopped after our tour to eat and...
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Maui Ocean Center Next stop on our tour
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Hi Stranger I love people watching fish.
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He came up to say Hi Such wonderful colors on his shell. Very vivid.
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Underwater swimmer Amazing how fast these fellows can swim
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Hammer Head shark This one was over 7 feet long
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Fountain and sculptures in courtyard This was against the wall of a building where they have a great exibit about...
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Life size exibit They have several life size whales in the rotunda of the same building...
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Schools in session Colorful fish that are all native to Hawaiian waters.
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Pride of Aloha docked in Maui Our last stop of the trip. Two days here and its back to Honolulu for...
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Christmas season in Maui We got back early from our tours today and went out to do some shopping....
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Open air Market In the shopping center on Maui.
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Produce for sale In the shopping center near the wharf in Maui vendors display and sell their...
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Maui Orchid Society In an empty store front the Maui Orchid Society had their Orchid show. The...
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Maui Orchid Growers Lovely exibits lined the hall
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Orchids I discovered that my camara was out of focus taking these shots but it was to...
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Orchids Another interesting specimen.
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Dark Purple Orchids The last usable photo. Now we found a store and bought souveniers. A...
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