2-4-19  Kapalua snorkel!  and walk the trail:

Today started out earlier then normal for me.  Woke up about 5 and  figured I'd check the computer quickly and go back to bed.  That didn't end up happening.  Got into a conversation on Tripadvisor and ended up talking to another forum reader.  With us both being snorkel fanatics, we were trying to come up with a plan to meet up and snorkel.  With the brown water advisory, I didn't want to go all the way to the South side in case it wasn't clear and she couldn't come up here today.  So we agreed to snorkel our respective areas today and report back to each other and try again on Tues.  

By now, I was getting hungry and tired of cereal (which I also had for dinner the last 2 nights).  So I headed to Time's grocery store.  The sun had just risen when I left, so I stopped at a little park on the way to Time's and took a couple late sunrise photos.

 I was surprised to see they even have a really nice looking breakfast bar with quite an assortment of cooked foods for $8/pound.  I thought of getting a container full, but not having a scale there, I figured I'd end up with $24 worth of stuff for breakfast!  So I bought a dozen eggs for about $3.50  and 12oz of bacon for $4.99.  Also bought some pork chops and chicken so I could have something besides cereal for dinner.  Got back to the condo and made myself breakfast.

 I was hoping to get to Kapalua by 9 so I might get a parking spot.  No luck there.  Didn't get there until 9:30 and all the free spots were gone.  So I started to go to the lot by the tennis courts and noticed the lot just to the north of the free one was now charging $10/car until 3pm.  So I pulled in there.  Figured 5 1/2 hours ought to be long enough!---it almost wasn't!
saw this sticker on a car on my walk to the beach.

 I was still there early enough that there weren't a whole lot of people there. 

 The brown water didn't make it here.  In fact, conditions looked the best since I've been on the islands (little over 2 weeks).

 Water was much clearer then Airport beach yesterday.
Rock mover wrasse.

 saddle wrasse

 teardrop butterflyfish

 lots of these guys here this year---sailfin tang

 4 spot butterflyfish

 school of sailfins

 only emperor fish I saw here.

 large female bullethead parrotfish

 extensive coral and lone jack

 barred filefish

 unicornfish

 the coral goes on and on!

 an endemic pebbled butterflyfish on a huge coral head.

 more coral heads

 female bird wrasse

 blackspot sergeant

 lei triggerfish

  pink tail triggerfish

 sea turtle

 there she goes

 school of coronet fish

 lots of soldier fish by the large coral heads near the middle of the bay

 coral on coral

 leather jack

 looking back towards the shore

 shortnosed wrasse

 so pretty he gets 2 shots

 short bodied blenny

 stareye parrotfish

 black spot sergeant fish with darker stripes

 yellow tail corris

 school of convict tangs with a few followers

 convicts

 the blueist blue goatfish I've seen.

beautifully marked trumpetfish

 large cigar wrasse

 christmas wrasse

 cute chubs

Like swimming in an aquarium!

 brown surgeonfish

 white spot puffer

 Hawaiian gregory

 a young ring tail wrasse hiding on the bottom and 2 teardrop butterflyfish

 Really???!!!!!

 male bullethead parrotfish

 young peacock grouper

  after about 2.5 hours in the water, I decided it was time to get out.  These little guys were right at the waters edge.

 Spent the next hour sitting up here warming up in the sun.

 what a gorgeous day and gorgeous views!

 after I was dry, I decided to walk more of the coast trail.  this was looking south

 looking north

 looking back over the whole beach.

 continuing north

 pretty flowers.  Gonna miss them when I have to leave

 this is about as far as I got in the past.

 I noticed a bunch of people jumping into the water from the rocky outcropping.

I was hoping I could get to Dragon's Teeth.

 continuing on---did I find the area of Dragon's teeth?

 checking out the map

 checking out the point

 pretty good trail

 until here. 

 where's the trail

 I'm assuming the narrow rocked lined flat area is the trail.

 rocky, but pretty in it's own way

 gotta be a trail.

 some teeth appearing.

 looking back on the trail.

 really an interesting trial!

 trail's getting better again

 Heading back towards Kapalua

 Hard to really tell from here, but the beach was packed

 Got back to the car about 2:40.  Had to be out by 3 so valet could use the lot.  I managed to stay a lot longer then I thought I would.
Back at the condo, I decided it was time to eat again.  But instead of cooking all the food I bought this morning, I decided to walk across the street to Dollie's Bar and Grill for happy hour.  
That IPA sure hit the spot!

 They have some really nice happy hour specials!

 nice little place

 I got the $5 pizza.  I ate half of it and was full.   Now I'm beginning to regret that I bought pork chops and chicken!

 Then I headed to our beach to wait for sunset.  It was about 1 1/2 hours away, but where else did I have to be!?

 I wasn't expecting much of a sunset, so the only camera I had with me was my phone.  But sunset turned out pretty good.  Good thing my phone takes good photos!

 almost done.

 a beautiful ending to a beautiful day!