Today Molokai, across the channel, stands clear and tall, well, sort of tall.\u00a0 No clouds to shroud its ancient volcanoes.\u00a0 The ocean is calm and no breeze stirs the palms.\u00a0 Blue, blue, blue Hawai’i.<\/p>\n
As has happened 61 times for me, the planet has moved on in its orbit, past the spot that marks February 14th.\u00a0\u00a0 Today Kate and I bid aloha to Maui and aloha to Kauai.\u00a0 I’ll write next from the Hyatt Resort on the south shore of Kauai.\u00a0 On the 24th I’ll move\u00a0to Da Fish Shack when Kate leaves for home; it’s on the north shore.<\/p>\n
Last night Kate and I made our way to Mama’s Fish House, where, to my surprise, they now recognize us as repeat customers.\u00a0 I say made our way because Kate drove and I navigated using the %$@!! navigator in my phone.\u00a0 Which got us thoroughly lost.\u00a0 When I drive, my inner navigator works fine, I’ve found Mama’s several times, but as a passenger I got thrown off and relying on technology didn’t help.\u00a0 Sigh.<\/p>\n
We did, however, make it.\u00a0 It was Valentine’s Day so Mama’s had a full house.\u00a0 The bay on which Mama’s sits is the best wind surfing in the world (or so they claim) and the waves and wind were monster yesterday.\u00a0 Must of have been good.\u00a0 We arrived after dark. We have seen the windsurfers, propelling themselves on surfboards fixed with sails, leaping from wave to wave.\u00a0 Very balletic and colorful.<\/p>\n
Mama’s is a polished island wood structure with walls made of drift wood and flotsam, the occasional old door and whatever struck the owner’s whimsy.\u00a0 Inside, it has rattan light shades and tables covered with blue cloth decorated with white ginger leaves.\u00a0 They have expanded by 100% since I’ve been there, but managed to retain the intimate South Sea ambience.<\/p>\n
We had an Island meal of opah, mahimahi, lauau pork, seared banana, ron baton lychee nut, star fruit and a surprising fresh coconut.\u00a0 Quite a birthday treat.\u00a0 The waiter brought out my macadamia nut crisp with six candles, special ones Kate brought, the flames burned the color of the candle.\u00a0\u00a0 A happy birthday.<\/p>\n
On the way back we ran into a road construction project that cost us 30 minutes at a time when we were both pretty sleepy.\u00a0 Not fun.\u00a0 Looked to me like they were laying fiber optic cable.<\/p>\n
Final, and sad, note.\u00a0 Maui has grown too much.\u00a0 It is too crowded, too built up and\u00a0 not as much fun.\u00a0 The road construction was only the last inconvenience created by this development during our trip.\u00a0 I will be glad to get to Kauai.<\/p>\n
Aloha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today Molokai, across the channel, stands clear and tall, well, sort of tall.\u00a0 No clouds to shroud its ancient volcanoes.\u00a0 The ocean is calm and no breeze stirs the palms.\u00a0 Blue, blue, blue Hawai’i. As has happened 61 times for me, the planet has moved on in its orbit, past the spot that marks February … Continue reading Opah, Mahimahi, Ron Baton and Star Fruit<\/span>