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My Favorite Beaches on West Maui by @DJSmook

By on January 28, 2012 in Beach, Family Fun, Photos

Aloha Blog Readers! Glad to see you enjoyed my Favorite Beaches posts for Central Maui and South Maui. Hope you found them to be informative and good reading. This post is my third of 4 posts for this Maui Beaches Series for A Maui Blog.

So you’ve heard of my favorite beaches around Central and South Maui, this post is exclusive to the West Maui area. There are dozens of wonderful beaches along the West Maui coast line. I have to say, hitting the beaches in West Maui you get a historical buzz going. A little known fact is Lahaina town used to the capitol for the old Kingdom of Hawaii.

DT Flemming Westside Maui

Photo Credit: Photo taken by Kris Nelson  www.mauibyphoto.com

My favorite beaches in West Maui include the following:

Fleming Beach is a wonderful public beach park in Kapalua.  This is a beach favored by locals and visitors to our island.  You have a beautiful white sand beach with parking, showers, restrooms, and of course your safety officers the county life guards.  They are awesome in giving you up to the minute information on the water conditions and warn you of dangers that may be present.  Snorkeling here is awesome and you can catch the surf.  Just be mindful and observe the warning signs and flags when posted by county life guards.  I love going to this beach even from my young kid days.  The people here are awesome.  Watching the sunsets here are great too.

 

Ka’anapali Beach is located in the resort part of West Maui known as Ka’anapali.  This beach is NOT owned by the resorts and is open to the public.  This beach goes from the Sheraton Resort to the very end of Ka’anapali.  Here you can of course swim, learn to catch some surf, kayak, paddle canoe, and even snorkel here.  For the non swimmers, this is an awesome beach to work on your tans and of course watch awesome sunsets.  The con about this beach is there are NO Lifeguards on post.  The Maui Police Department does have officers that patrol this area.

 

Black Rock Beach foot steps from the Sheraton Resort, is a very popular beach attraction for locals and visitors.  You can jump from the top of the rock to the water below and snorkel here.  Just bare in mind that there are no life guards at this beach, but fire and police officers do patrol this area on ATVs and foot patrols.

 

These three beaches are my prime beaches to head to if your visiting West Maui.  Check back regularly to see my final chapter “My Favorite East Maui Beaches” in this “My Favorite Maui Beaches Series”.  A Hui Hou!

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Buy Back The Beach 2012 Benefit Luau – Five Things +

By on January 24, 2012 in Arts and Culture, Beach, Blogging, Community, Events, Family Fun, Photos, Uncategorized, Where Local Eat

Imagine Maui with very limited access to the beautiful beaches around it. Imagine it very crowded that you can’t see the ocean while driving down the road. Imagine… Can you? I can’t. Or at least I wouldn’t even want to. Part of  Maui’s beauty is it’s open space, it’s beautiful beaches and access to it. And I would want my kids, and my grandkids, to experience the same.  This is why I am participating in this Buy Back The Beach Benefit Luau. To help me organize my thoughts, I decided to break them into “Five”

Hula dancer at @oldlahinaluau #BBTB

Five Facts About Buy Back The Beach Benefit Luau 2012:

  1. Buy Back The Beach Benefit Luau is an annual fundraising event by Hawaiian Islands Land Trusts and it is now on it’s 11th year.
  2.  This year’s BBTB event will be held on the beautiful grounds of  the Old Lahaina Luau on January 28, 2012 at 5:00PM.
  3. Aside from the award winning Hula by the Old Lahaina Luau,  entertainment also includes a private concert by HAPA.
  4. Tickets are available online at Eventbrite, or you may call (808) 244-5263.
  5. Cost of Tickets are $150 per person and $1,200 for a table of eight.
Five Reasons To Attend the Buy Back The Beach Benefit Luau:
    1. To support Hawaiian Islands Land Trust ‘s (HILT) mission of protecting and preserving the land.
    2. To enjoy a great entertainment by the award winning Old Lahaina Luau and private concert by  HAPA
    3. To indulge on the onolicious  food that will  from the Hoaloha family of restaurants:  Aloha Mixed Plate, Old Lahaina Luau, Star Noodles and Leoda’s Kitchen and Pie Shop.
    4. To find some great deals on their Adventures For The Aina auction, maybe purchase one or two or more.
    5. To have fun with family and friends.

Five Ways to Support The Mission of Hawaiian Islands Land Trust

  1. Attend the buy Back The Beach Benefit Luau.  Tickets Available here (oh I already mentioned this? :) )
  2. Not available to come?  Live on a far away place? Then how about making “cash” a  donation via Paypal and help us raise $5,000 to fulfill the challenge and have a donor match it with another $5,000.  ( I was informed we need help in this are so I made it multi-colored :)
  3. Bid on an auction item, or share these auction happening with your family and friends and encourage them to bid also.
  4. Show appreaciation to the major donors and sponsors of this event: Old Lahaina Luau, Mana Foods, Skyline Adventures, Sempra and Boeing.
  5. Participate in the current Buy Back The Beach Social Media Campaign (see below) 

 


Five Ways to Participate in HILT’s and BBTB’s Social Media Campaign. 
  1. Like HILT’s Facebook Page   Join the conversation
  2. Follow them/us on Twitter  Join the conversation
  3. Discover what our bloggers are sharing about HILT and BBTB and please share them with your circle of friends too: A Maui Blog, The OhanaMama, Non-Stop Honolulu and Barefoot Studios.
  4. During the BBBTB Luau, follow the social media team @spectekula @roxannedarling @peterliu47 @melissa808, @theohanamama and @amauiblog all the other social media enthusiasts (like @DaniaKatz)who will be livetweeting from the luau. The hashtag we are going to use is #BBTB2012. Would be great if you would re-tweet (RT) our tweets as well.  It will be a huge help to us. Let’s all do this together!
  5. Read Roxanne’s post for more….

That’s all for now friends.  And I hope to see some of you there, or interact with you via online on  Saturday.   Aloha! (P.S. The photo above is the Social Media team for Buy Back The Beach 2011. :)

PHOTO CREDITS: photos taken by Peter Liu Photography. Posted on Kaiscapes’ Flickr Acct.  and the last photo is taken by Paula MacCutcheon.

THIS POST SPONSORED BY: Aloha Luxury Properties – Maui Luxury Vacation Rentals.

 

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