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This part of the island is dominated by the cloud-capped heights of the West Maui Mountains, the other member of the pair of volcanoes (which includes Haleakala) responsible for the formation of Maui.
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Michael Garrison > A view of the summit of the West Maui Mountains from Ka'anapali, West Maui. The summit peak, Pu'u Kukui (5788 feet) is usually shrouded in clouds. Pu'u Kukui is the volcanic companion peak of Haleakala (Pu'u 'Ula'ula, 10,028 feet).
Michael Garrison > This is the reason I'm going to die on Maui! A typical stretch of open beach at sunset, somewhere between Kahana and Napili, west Maui.
Michael Garrison > A rainbow moves across the upper slopes near Kanaha, west Maui. In this part of Maui, the afternoon showers and their tag-along rainbows appear with such regularity that one can tell the time of day by their appearance. Sometimes, one rainbow will last for the better part of an hour!
Michael Garrison > Honokeana Bay near Napili, West Maui -- A deserted "pocket beach" along the Lower Pi'ilani Road in the residential neighborhood in southern Napili. Molokai is on the horizon, to the west.
Michael Garrison > Honokeana Bay near Napili, west Maui -- Looking south, Lanai is on the horizon.
Michael Garrison > Anchorage at Honolua Bay, Kapalua, west Maui.
Michael Garrison > A collapsed lava tube (arrow) extending out into Honolua Bay, Kapalua, west Maui.
Michael Garrison > The Ritz Carlton Hotel, Oneloa Beach, Honokahua Bay (from Makaluapuna Point), west Maui. When excavation of the site for the hotel began in 1988, hundreds of human skeletons were unearthed almost immediately. The brushy, grassless patch of ground in this photo is part of an immense burial ground ("one hanau", literally "birth sands") containing the remains of about 2,000 Hawaiians buried here between 850 AD and the early 18th Century. Protests by native Hawaiian heritage groups and a candle-light vigil at the state capital won the day: bones that had already been removed were re-interred and the hotel was sited farther inland. Nowadays the only modern intrusion on the sacred grounds is the occasional golf ball sliced into the bushes from the nearby hotel golf course. The ultimate irony: the Ritz Carlton placed bronze plaques around the burial mounds proclaiming its "culture-sensitive" corporate policy that respected the site's spiritual importance. Guided tours of the burial site and brochures describing the site make it sound as if it was their idea to protect the "birth sands" in the first place!
Michael Garrison > A stunted Ironwood Tree growing in the old lave flow at the Dragon's Teeth, Kapalua, west Maui.
Michael Garrison > A promintory in Honokahua Bay, north of Kapalua near Flemming Beach Park, one of the best dive spots on West Maui.
Michael Garrison > The dark-red rocks exposed on this cliff face are in the interior of a large volcanic cinder cone that was eroded by wave action, exposing the wall of the cone. Honokahau Bay at mile marker 35 on the Honoapi'ilani Highway just south of Kapalua, west Maui. (See next photo for a more detailed view.)
Michael Garrison > The exposed interior walls of a large volcanic cinder cone at mile marker 36 on the Honoapi'ilani Highway near Kapalua, west Maui. The prominent thin layers of rock mark individual eruptions of volcanic ash and cinders during the formation of the cone.
Michael Garrison > The mouth of a lava tube along the south shore of Honokahua Bay, west Maui.
Michael Garrison > Honolua Bay seen from Kanounou Point, west Maui. Looking southwestward toward Kapalua. The neighbor island of Lana'i is barely visible on the distant horizon under a bank of white cumulus clouds.
Michael Garrison > Honolua Bay, northwest of Lipoa Point, west Maui. The boulder-strewn beach doesn't offer much comfort for sunbathers, but snorkelers and surfers love the bay.
A stunted Ironwood Tree growing in the old lave flow at the Dragon's Teeth, Kapalua, west Maui.
Michael Garrison > A stunted Ironwood Tree growing in the old lave flow at the Dragon's Teeth, Kapalua, west Maui.
A stunted Ironwood Tree growing in the old lave flow at the Dragon's Teeth, Kapalua, west Maui.
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