We took our Blue Hawaiian helicopter ride yesterday morning. It was AMAZING! We choose the Maui spectacular, which was 90 minutes. It was a combination of West Maui and Hana/Haleakala. We first flew over the magnificent West Maui valleys. The West Maui mountains are knife-edged ridges and have beautiful waterfalls that cascade down from towering cliffs into the streams running along the rainforest floor. Once we left the West Maui mountains, we landed in a remote landing site at Ulupalukua Ranch on the slopes of Haleakala. Our pilot popped the champagne and we enjoyed the scenery and pastoral setting for 20 minutes. We then continued on for another 45 minutes to explore East Maui, which includes the famous Hana and Haleakala. Haleakala is home to the famous Haleakala Crater and Oheo Gulch. Hana is famous for it's town, rainforest, waterfalls, and rugged shoreline. I took so many pictures that I couldn't decide which ones to put up.
After the helicopter ride, we took a drive over to Paia. This is home to one of the world's famous windsurfing beach, called Kuau Beach. We sat and watched the kite surfers, the surfers, and the wind surfers for a few minutes before venturing down the road to Mama's Fishhouse. This was a cool place...see the picture of Dale with his new best friend? The setting was old Polynesian with tropical flowers, bamboo ceilings, ect throughout the open air restaurant that sat on its own private beach.
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