Our Stay in Maui
View from Lanai (front Porch) of townhouse owned by our
friends Tom & Chris...a great place to enjoy Maui.
Photo by Tom Brayton - (c) 2007
Maria and I spent most of the month of May in Maui in an ocean front townhouse at the edge of Lahaina.  The
image on the top of this web page was taken on one of the many beautiful evenings as the sun set over the
island of Lanai, across from Maui.  This being our second stay on Maui, we did some less traditional things
(glass fusing class, block printing class) along with a lot of the traditional ones, like driving to Hana.  Click here
to see selected photos from our visit.

May is the month of the Maui Canoe Festival in which expert canoe carvers from various islands assemble and
build traditional canoes and other objects in just a couple weeks.  There were teams from Tonga, New Zealand,
Marshall Islands, Tahiti, and Hawaii.  Click here to see a large and excellent collection of photos taken by our
friend and Hawaii host, Tom Brayton.  

No trip to Maui would be complete without driving to Hana, which requires negotiating some fairly narrow and
tightly curved roads.  The scenery along the way makes it worthwhile though.  We enjoyed a stop at a tourist
trap in the form of a lava tube (cave) near Hana.

While in Maui, we took a weekend-long class on glass fusing and slumping, which was fascinating.  The class
was held at the Hui No'eau in Makawao on Maui.  We created a couple of plates, some glass tiles and several  
pendants.  This is definitely a hobby we will pursue in the future, particularly given that Portland is something of
a "fused glass capital" with Bullseye Glass located downtown.  Click here to see some before & after shots
(before the kiln and after) of the experiments we made.
This is a "panorama photo" which covers nearly a 180-degree view of the central park in Lahaina which is beautifully shaded by a
massive banyan tree.  Every one of these trunks is part of the same tree.  There were frequent art fairs and parts of the canoe
festival, including a block printing class we took, printing on fabrics and T-Shirts.  So many potential hobbies, so little time!