Maui Photos

took some very cool pics of these flowers in Maui and am going to have one canvased to hang on my wall:

Hana

sea turtle

the Garden of Eden - LOVED IT!

Haleakala Crater where we watched the sunrise (Cheri had elevation sickness at 10,000 feet).  Views were breathtaking and so were the birds ;)  Noticed a lot of things grow red before they turn green here - love that!  And the protected Silversword plant:

 A baby mongoose

so many more photos . . . they would make a great slideshow!

sunrise

who sets their alarm clock for 3 am to see a sunrise?

more pics coming later this week

just mauied

look how the leaves start out - they're yellow pod shaped and as they grow out, they're green leaves:

yellow plumeria:

pink and yellow hibiscus - one of my favs:

palms:

different shaped pink hibiscus:

watched a crab take a seed pod into his tunnel:

night heron - closest to the pictures I could find online:

 I caught a baby lizard:

tomorrow we're staying the night in a treehouse and doing the Road to Hana again - too much to see all in 2 days, we need another 2 days ;)

beached

I fed the birds:

Wandering Tattler

Black Necked stilt birds

goose:

the little forest before Honolua Bay:

no wild life other than chickens - come on, where are REAL birds?  ;)

a day of snorkeling

Everyone comes to Hawaii for the sunsets, right?  Well, the moon can be pretty darn amazing too:

shipwreck in Lahaina:

baby puffer fish

 needle fish

 eel:

 parrot fish:

 someone wrote a message on a sea cucumber by wiping away the slime - LoL

we sat at the beach and went snorkeling all day