Molokai/Maui

The past few weeks were the longest we have had inport since I joined the Hi'ialakai. During the week I mainly worked per usual, but the weekends were a blast. The first weekend in I spent with my friend Andrea relaxing in Waikiki. One week during the last short inport I went over the island of Molokai, and two of the three weekends we were just in I went back, (for two, three-day weekends!), and on one of those hoped over to Lahaina, Maui for two full days. It has been awesome to relax and explore, and now we are back out at sea for 30 days in the NW HI Islands again. So far, it is a great cruise with smooth seas and night-time CTDs for me again. These photos are of my three different weekends of island hopping, and a few of the cruise before this one. Love to you all.

The awesome, quaint little town of Lahaina, Maui. We managed to go to many of its finest bars and restaurants-imagine that.

A beautiful Maui sunset from a sweet little bar.

An awesome hike on the W side of Molokai on my first visit...I was told the beach was crowded that day, no doubt, there were 2 other people there.

A gorgeous Molokai sunset, complete with a bottle of wine-what could be better?! So simple...

Another beautiful look-out on Molokai.

HI-10-04

This was a short but fun Education and Outreach cruise to the NW HI Islands for 10 days, so not many photos to share. I worked for the deck again and had a great time. One awesome aspect of it was a drill with the coast guard helicopter ops on our way out. Extra cool-the pilot was my boss's wife. I had a pretty bad shot from my safe vantage point...sorry.

Dr. Carl Meyer is an awesome scientist that sails with us often, studying the migration and movement of sharks and other large fish. Here we were trying to locate a receiver that was 'somewhere' near the ship.