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The modern Tourist's Maui coexisting with the mountainous isolation of Island Life 65 years ago.
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Michael Garrison > This old Kiawe tree was a casualty of the big Kona storm that struck the leeward side of Maui in December of 2007. The storm brought heavy sustained rains and flooding for an entire week; the waves and heavy seas scoured the leeward beaches of sand, gravel, and cobbles. Ukumehame, west Maui.
Michael Garrison > Fruit stand at the roadside, Olowalu, west Maui. Mike the proprietor sits in a lawn chair stationed nearby so he can keep an eye on the crates of fresh island fruits and vegetables. Other family members wait on customers and sell fresh-fruit smoothies from the "van"; their fresh cane juice is unbelievably good.
Michael Garrison > An isolated beach just off the road, about a mile southwest of Hekili Point near Olowalu.
Michael Garrison > Launiupoko State Wayside, about 10 miles south of Lahaina, west Maui. Lanai is visible across the Auau Channel in the morning haze.
Michael Garrison > Paunau Beach Park -- Looking northwest toward Lahaina. One of the many small pull-out beaches south of town. Local fishermen and families with children use this and other parks around Lahaina.
Michael Garrison > A CLASSIC landward view of Lahaina and its harbor district. The buildings along Front Street and the smokestack of the old sugar mill are easily visible landmarks used for line-of-sight navigation by day sailors. Lahaina, west Maui.
Michael Garrison > The neighbor island of Moloka'i seen on a clear April morning from Paunau Beach Park, south of Lahaina. Early in the morning, before the prevailing winds pick up, is the best time for swimming, boogie boarding, and snorkeling along this and other leeward-side beaches of west Maui.
Michael Garrison > Paunau Beach Park, west Maui. A lone fisherman mans his two surf rods on a beautiful April morning.
Michael Garrison > Keka'a Point (known locally as "Black Rock"), Ka'anapali Beach, west Maui. Note the wanna-be "cliff divers" perched atop the basalt promontory. The leeward side of the promintory is a good dive spot for beginner snorkelers. The Sheraton Maui Hotel is in the background.
Michael Garrison > The perfect beach front: the Hyatt Regency Maui Hotel on the south end of Ka'anapali Beach. The West Maui Mountains rise in the background.
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 > 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!
This old Kiawe tree was a casualty of the big Kona storm that struck the leeward side of Maui in December of 2007. The storm brought heavy sustained rains and flooding for an entire week; the waves and heavy seas scoured the leeward beaches of sand, gravel, and cobbles. Ukumehame, west Maui.
Michael Garrison > This old Kiawe tree was a casualty of the big Kona storm that struck the leeward side of Maui in December of 2007. The storm brought heavy sustained rains and flooding for an entire week; the waves and heavy seas scoured the leeward beaches of sand, gravel, and cobbles. Ukumehame, west Maui.
This old Kiawe tree was a casualty of the big Kona storm that struck the leeward side of Maui in December of 2007. The storm brought heavy sustained rains and flooding for an entire week; the waves and heavy seas scoured the leeward beaches of sand, gravel, and cobbles. Ukumehame, west Maui.
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