iao-valley – Guigon Travels

Nothing really exciting happened today, but it was lovely non-the-less. We woke up on our own and still ended up with both of us awake before 8:30. Very odd.

We moseyed our way over to the Maui Swap Meet in Kahalui and browsed through the abundance of vendors, picking up a few mementos and gifts.

Then we moseyed our way over to Chic-fil-A for lunch, just to say we did. The restaurant itself was really nice, but there was nothing really special about the food.

Then we moseyed our way over to the Iao Valley Monument, but not before Lady Sat Nav took us to the state office first <insert eye-roll emoji here>. The Valley was beautiful, with a garden, walking trails through the forest past converging rivers (creeks, really), and steps up to an amazing view of the Iao Needle.

From there we moseyed back to the condo to drop our packages off before moseying over to Mama’s Fish House to see if we could get walk-in seats. We could not, so we moseyed over to Kuau Beach to see if we could see some turtles. We could! Not just one, but three were on beach when we got there. The surf was quite high again today, too, so in the process of watching a few surfers Dan’s shoes and socks got completely soaked.

Having gotten our view of turtles outside the water, we moseyed over to Paia Fish Market for supper. The line was out the door, but it moved pretty quickly so it didn’t really take long for us to order and get a seat. The fish was really good, as were the clam chowder (for me) and the deep-fried butterfly shrimp (for Dan). We moseyed across the street for some ice cream for dessert, moseyed back to the car while we ate the ice cream, and then moseyed our way back to the condo. All that moseying got us home fairly early this evening, so as I write this I’m also binge-watching episodes of Murder, She Wrote.