1-13 And still it rains

Monsoon. That’s the only way to describe this. It wakes you up at night with it’s ferocity, the winds howl, the thunder claps, the lightening illuminates the sky. This is a tropical event! We wake up – for good (after the 4:30 thunderclaps and 5:30 rain pounding, wind howling episodes) and it’s all over the news. The schools are closed, the main road where we are staying is closed – the roads to the crater are shut down. It’s incredible!

The deluge finally lets up around 9am – and we go out to explore. Oh wow! There is mud everywhere – all over the streets, which they are scraping with bulldozers, all over the park, in the ocean, turning the surf brown. The street we walk down to get to the park (with the martini driveway) is under water.

The little beach that we would cross to get from one side of the park to another – it’s a rushing gulch filled with muddy water and the erosion is just incredible! Amazing!

The Princess ship that normally comes into Lahaina couldn’t even make it there – probably because of the winds. So it’s anchored off of Maalaea harbor – but we don’t think they can launch the tenders because its really windy. We’ll see.

So- what is today going to bring? Clouds, winds, but no more rain fortunately. We sweep off the patio, and after wiping off the washer/dryer, we actually get the laundry done. Then – since the weather is so volatile, we just hang out - doing work, reading, when the sun comes out – hanging out in the yard reading. A nice little relaxing day – even though it started out as a wash out!

The day actually turned out nice. And we’re happy to get out and do some walking. The cottage is great – but getting out and stretching our legs is even nicer.

After dinner we head up to the Barmuda triangle and hit Kahale’s. Nobody’s there – no music tonight – probably because of the flood. Kahale’s was under water this morning too, and they’ve been mopping and cleaning out all day. Jason, the bartender said it was bad, but not the worst he’s seen. That’s saying a lot, because we’re thinking it was pretty awful.

We try to do a pub crawl – but after hitting Dog & Duck – we decide we’ve had enough. It was fun – they had quiz night – which we’ll do for sure next week. But for some reason it was REALLY hot in there – and it kind of sapped us – so we headed out – and enjoyed the fresh breeze on the walk home.

Tomorrow – we’re hitting the beach! Yep – the beach! Oh – and sunset whale watching cruise…..more later!