Just arrived in Maui, One of the larger Hawaiian Islands, I have spent the afternoon learning about the Whaling History of this area, One of Maui Top Attractions, the Whalers Village Museum brings to life Lahaina's whaling era (1825-1960) with hundreds of artifacts, photo murals and interpretive graphics. The story is told through the eyes of an ordinary sailor or whaleman, and illustrates the challenges of daily life on the sea. For the last few hours have been watching footage from a film made about The Hump Back Whale who spends half the year in the waters off Alaska, then comes to have its young in the seas right off the coast here between December and March. You can see then from the shore flying up in the air and crashing down again. The purpose of this place is to make more people aware of how wonderful these creatures are, and that we must preserve their habitat. Another fine being is the rare Hawksbury Turtle, certainly not so common as the Green Turtle. Again these great creatures need our help by allowing them to come up the beach bury their eggs and return to the sea unhindered. They are of course  protected by law however there is a need to make more people aware how great they are. I had a fantastic first day here on Maui. I must mention that as we were about to land I saw from the plane a huge bush fire near the airport, and when we drove to the hotel it had almost reached the highway. Shortly afterwards the highway was closed and many people where unable to get through the only access raod to our area and spent the night in their cars. I am grateful no one was hurt but some homes were lost.

CO 2 Report  - Airtravel 150 miles

Coach Travel - 7 miles and Car travel(shared taxi) 24 miles