Magical Hawaiian Radiance of the Seas Detailed Trip Report with Many Pictures

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Ioa State Monument

 

 

We walked up to the building up there. It actually was not too bad a hike even for us decrepit ones.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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We also went down to the gardens and stream.

 

 

 

 

There are danger signs all over Maui!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Up and Down!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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This was a swimming spot. Personally, I would be nervous letting my little kids swim here, but I’m not a swimmer!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The regular lavatory was out of service so they had these set up. Ummm, no thanks, Butch had to take us somewhere else…

 

 

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We went to the Maui Winery. Only one of us is a wine drinker so we didn’t think we would be really interested, but it turned out to be where we bought most of our souvenirs. We even asked Butch to stop back there on our tour the next week. (I love saying the next week because it really shows how long our trip was! LOL!)

 

 

 

 

 

 

A canon at a winery?

 

 

 

 

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We bought these painted wine glasses for all of the girls in our families. LOVED THEM!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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We stopped in Paia for lunch. We were starving because we hadn’t had breakfast. We told Butch that we felt like burgers – cruise ships just don’t have good burgers usually. He suggested these 2 restaurants on the main street – Charley’s Restaurant and Saloon and Rock and Brew. We went with the Rock and Brew as it was more open and neither place had air conditioning. Maui – the land of very little air conditioning. As I said, we caught it in one of the hottest and most humid spells they had had in 50 years. Lovely! :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cute little kid area!

 

 

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Rock and Brew was an excellent choice!! College football games on all the screens. The food was so delicious. The burgers were on Hawaiian rolls and they were amazing! I would definitely go back here again!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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LOL, look at the design on this car! Palms!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Don’t want to know what happened here for this memorial. So sad!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Supposedly you weren’t supposed to go over the rails, but Butch told us we could. :)

 

 

 

 

OMG, these crazy boys diving off the rocks!!! So scary!! I wonder what those boys’ parents thought they were doing…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here is one of the boys running home, safe and sound…

 

 

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We saw some men walking into the ocean in wet suits and carrying stuff. I don’t think that is a spear in his hand???

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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We saw some turtles!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wind surfing

 

 

 

 

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People could park right on the beach. We saw lots of people with tents on the beach too.

 

 

 

 

 

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A roadside memorial. Be careful in Hawaii!! I did hear our tour guides on multiple occasions say tourists think they can just take hikes or go swimming in areas that they know nothing about and they get hurt and have to get rescued all the time. I didn’t tell our guides, but I did have a story from the first time I was in Hawaii 25 years ago. My sister and her husband picked us up from the airport in Oahu. On the way to their Navy housing, my sisters saw a beach!! They started yelling stop, stop, let’s go swimming!!! We stopped at the beach and they all ran out straight into the ocean. (Not me – as I say I don’t like to swim much.) They didn’t notice that no one else was swimming and that there weren’t any life guards. OMG, the waves were so strong. They got knocked down and were getting swept out. My poor mother, who had very bad knees, had to crawl out with her knees bleeding from the rocky floor of the ocean. They did get a little mad at me because I couldn’t stop laughing. All I could think of was the native islanders watching who had to be thinking those stupid haoles!!! They didn’t do that again… We did have a great trip!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our ship in the distance! We were getting closer!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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There was a race in downtown Lahaina. Our driver had to park a few streets away from the ship in order to drop us off. He tried to get as close as he could. We saw the kids’ race. It was so cute.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The dock area was quite beautiful!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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There was a long line to get the tender back to the ship. I personally have never had to wait this long for a tender. Though, that is probably because usually we get back really early and we were back at a more typical time – though not cutting it close by any means.

 

 

 

 

But we had a nice area to look at and they gave out water while we were waiting. Too cute, 2 boys were coming back to the ship and walking to the end of the line. One of the boys dropped his Hard Rock Café glass out of its box and it shattered. His friend just kept walking. The whole line nearby all ‘awwwwed’ for him. He was so embarrassed. I didn’t take his picture because I didn’t want to embarrass him more.

 

 

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Security doesn’t look too friendly!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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What an incredible review! I am addicted!!!

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What an incredible review! I am addicted!!!

 

 

Thank you so much!! It was an incredible trip!!!

 

 

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