Sunday October 12, 2014 Lahaina, Maui, HI

I was up early at 6:30 and made the coffee.  The reason we got up was so we could worship with the Oakey Blvd. Church of Christ via their netcast.  This mornings sermon was preached by Ken Butterworth.  This was the second sermon of a Gospel meeting that goes until Wednesday evening. Brother Butterworth sermon came from 1st Corinthians 6, he also preached the physical aspects of Christs crucifixion.

After worship services we got ready to go for a drive to the 'Ioa Valley State Park.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iao_Valley.  The main feature of the park is the 'Ioa Needle.  It is an uneroded ridge of basalt.  It is covered with greenery and is an impressive sight.  We walked across the stream to a point where there were 135 stairs steps up to a viewpoint.  We walked around a demonstration garden area that showed how the natives had grown Taro and other food staple plants.  I gathered the information needed to claim the find of an earthcache.  I found another cache just outside the park entrance.
We had never been there on other trips to Maui.

'Ioa Needle

Taro patch

'Ioa Needle

Cultural demonstration area

Gerri and Frank

Another shot of the 'Ioa needle

Neva

On the way back to Lahaina we stopped and I got the information to claim a virtual cache and find a traditional cache.  We did stop for one cache that I didn't find.  This cache was an interesting location.  It was on a hill, a cemetery.  All the markers were in Chinese style writing, may have been Korean or Japanese.  All the markers seemed old and the area looked uncare for.  Some of the markers had writing carved into marble gravestones many others were writing carved into local rocks both basalt and other forms of lava.

We stopped and I found another cache in the parking lot of a bike/walking trail.  I picked up a travel bug there.  I have set a goal to reach 4600 caches before leaving Hawaii.  I have two to go.  I have found 46 caches while we have been on Maui.

Oktoberfest burgers

We headed to Lahaina Town for an early dinner.  We found a parking spot near the Banyan Tree Park and walked to the Cool Cat Cafe.  We all had the hamburger of the month, a cheeseburger with onion crisps, tomato, onion and a spicy dressing.  We shared an order of onion rings. Though very messy the burgers were great and the onion rings crisp and the Maui onions were soft.  All in all another excellent meal.

One of the construction areas (seawall repair) at Papakea

Back at the Papakea we played a game of dominoes.  We had an intermission at the double four round.  We had to go out and watch the sunset.  We returned to our domino game and I won.  The standing now is; Frank 3, Gerri 2 and Neva 2.

Reading, TV and computer time finished the evening.