maui Archives - The Grassy Road

Swimming with company in the Maui ocean

It's 6:30am in Maui on Labor Day 2012, the sun is just about to come up over Haleakala, I'm wide awake on California time and I walk into the ocean. This is my meditation. I jogged into the water at the Wailea beach with David Bowie playing on my swimp3 waterproof headset. The water was like a millpond: grey, clear and flat with only the slightest ripple at the edge. As I pushed into the water (shaking off the initial chill) I felt the wash of calm come over me. [...]

A day of sun, wind, sand and water

The North Shore of Maui is the perfect place to spend a day in the wind and sun. Armed with a cooler, a great book, #50 sunscreen and my camera I watched my two man-children kite board all afternoon. Silly grins and laid back attitudes, they chatted with their kiting buddies and checked in on me every 30 minutes or so with a "did you see me jump?" or "did you get a photo of me?" types of inquiries - all about them and their kiting of course!But I got [...]