shopping. film, Pai'a, Makena

Today I bought some really nice board shorts at Tropix. On our way back to the hotel we stopped in Kihei and got some fresh cocunut juice and apple bananas from a small store.

I hadn't known that the little brown coconuts you usually see in stores is actually just the middlemost part of the coconut. The majority of the bulk is the fibrous husk.



We also bought a little plush turtle for my mom.

From there, we met up with Daves mom, Sandy, Dylan and Dave at Big Beach and hung out, built sand castles, snorkeled and boogy boarded. After having fish tacos at the JAWZ taco truck parked near the Big Beach lot, we continued shopping. I got a shirt at the Pacific Whale foundation, and we looked around Pai'a at some of the stores. We were actually on a mission to find medium format film, which is pretty hard to find on Maui -- at least it was for me! We finally found some velvia 100F (I didnt notice that it was F -- arghhh) at the Lighthaus in Kahaluhi, which stopped the shakes and other withdrawal symptoms I was experiencing at having only 3 exposures of velvia film left.

We spent the rest of the day on the beach in front of our hotel



and then headed off to Mamas Fish house with Dave and Sandy where we had excellent crab cakes, ahi sashimi and macadamia nut encrusted mahi-mahi stuffed with crab and lobster. I could barely move after the meal.