2/20/99: A nice early morning walk with Ruth. Then she went down to Kahului with Kathy for the rest of the day.
2/20/24: *During our 1999 stay with Dad & Mom at the end of our round-the-world trip, we did not take many photos. So, I am posting photos and stories from some of our other trips to Maui over the years.
Still further north from Kahakaloa Bay on this side of the West Maui Mountains, you come to Nakalele Point. The shore-line here is a rocky and the slope upward is dry, rather than a rain forest. It has its own kind of beauty. As you pick your way across the lava field toward the point, you will come to a blow-hole, a fissure about 30 or so feeet from the actual cliff edge over the water, but which twists and turns out toward that water. When big waves come rolling in and hit the cliff face, the water rushes through the hole and erupting upward at the blow-hole like a natural fountain. Depending upon the size and force of the waves hitting the rock-face, we have seen the eruptions shoot as high as 50-60 feet in the air. If you go, you may wind up getting wet from the spray, but stay a safe distance from the opening so that you don’t get knocked over or sucked into the blow-hole as the water rushes back out to sea.
NOTE: The photo above shows the blow-hole at Nakalele Point, from our 2012 trip to Maui.
