We took a day trip to the northwest coast of Maui, to the “most beautiful beach in the world,” according to no less trustworthy a source than the free guidebook we’d found in the back of the rental car. The beach is called Kapalua Bay, and it’s hard to find unless you know the sekrit sign to watch for, and no I don’t mean the common blue “public beach access” sign because that one was hidden behind a shrub.
It is a nice beach. It was under-crowded, as are most Hawaiian beaches. It’s family-friendly, too; the beach slopes so gradually into the water that kids can ride boogie boards 20 feet into the bay and back simply by laying at the edge of the surf. Also there’s a large shady area at the south end of the beach, perfect for pale-skinned Midwesterners less familiar with SPF ratings than with the ABCD’s of melanoma.
Continuing north, we found lots of amazing scenery, about which I’d write moving and passionate descriptions if I had the time and if this document hadn’t been sitting open on my laptop for about 10 days, inspiring not much scintillating prose but a whole ocean full of writer’s block.
So, just look at the pictures: Northwest Coast of Maui