Recoup day...

Friday, January 15. Hot as blazes, again.

We slept like babies. We must be showing our age when a simple travel day can drain us so much. However, 5:30 arising was in order and the coffee was perking. A short trip to the office by me to get some sweetener as we had a little hiccup yesterday because we brought the wrong set of keys for the locker here, so, we did not have access to our food stash earlier. A trip to maintenance and a set of bolt cutters wielded by a very large Hawaiian  and we were up and operational.

We headed out for the beach this am, about a 15 minute walk, when it was light, but not really yet. Kihei is located in the foothills of a large dormant volcano. At this time of the year the sun comes over the crest of the volcano and we try to be in the water as the first burst of sunlight hits this area. As the vacation drags on, this becomes less appealing to us, [the good life you know!]

We were in the water at the appointed time and greeted the Sun with great smiles and enthusiasm. It is amazingly easy for us to forget about the weather at home. As a matter of fact that was forgotten about yesterday in the van driving from the airport! Today, it seems a distant memory until Wally advised us that it was -5C this am, and raining, dark and +3C as he drove home from work. Gad, that Seasonal Affective Disorder, [SAD], is a very real thing it would appear. The tropics also slow you down considerably, even the drivers are more laid back.

Some more light grocery shopping in the afternoon after a rather hefty snooze for Doug, Fellette practised her music. After that we went to the pool area and played scrabble, Fellette swam and then home the 100 yards to think about dinner that we so little deserve!

There seems to be a bit of a haze across the water here now. There is normally some substantial Trade Winds in the afternoon here, but that seems to be lacking. I thing that it is a sea haze, unless they are burning the sugar cane fields but we do not smell smoke.

We hope to get away to the Farmer's Market in Kahului early tomorrow, it starts at seven and the produce is local and Fresh.

The bolt cutters in action today!

One view from the balcony, ground floor.

We cleaned out the locker today, these went to the dumpster by the beach. 

A couple from White Rock got most of them.

On the way to the beach around 7:15 this am.

Good old Sol, right on time, over the volcano.

Out she comes. This is the same beach where Jeanette, Craig and Wally learned and honed their swimming skills, sort of.

A Botanical Moment: Walking back from the swim, bougainvillaea. It grows like a weed here, 

all year round. 

I run up this stairway, two at a time, as a measure of my fitness. OK today!