I stopped off at the ABC store this morning to pick up some things for work. You can't go to Maui and not come back with a macadamia themed treat. After that we headed south to Ahihi bay. It's right beside a relatively recent lava field so there is very little vegetation but the snorkeling is great. We went there last year and it's where we got Callie to try snorkeling for the first time. The fish were there again this year and I got to see a parrot fish however the tide was in and the waves were big.
We only managed to do what we did last year. Hold on to her while she held her breath and checked out the fish. She still enjoyed it and saw a few schools of fish as well as a humu humu nuku nuku apu a'a fish.
On the way back we decided it was a good opportunity to stop at Big Beach since we weren't sure we would be back in this direction. It turned out to be an excellent idea.
Big beach is aptly named for the size of the beach but also for the size of the waves. Certainly not north shore big but for a sandy beach on this side of the island they are huge. They break right at the shoreline and Carter had an amazing time. He would let them break just in front of him and they fall down as the water rushed back into the sea. You had to keep an eye on him but he was pretty good about not going out too far.
A good thing too since the waves were big enough to knock all of us over at one point. The only bad thing about the day was that I think it will take us a few weeks to get the sand out of him.
Kerry, Carter, Kennedy, Brenda and Callie all went for shaved ice in the afternoon and we finished off the evening with a pineapple, chicken caesar salad and the Tigger movie.
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