After rainy and stormy November and December we get finally some sun and warm temperatures in Hawaii! Since my first visit in 2003 we haven't been back to Maui but explored the Big Island and Kauai instead. Maui stands up to the other islands with nice beaches for snorkeling and buggy boarding and good hiking, though Big Island is still my preferred island for the variety of activities and relative scarcity of tourists. My favorite on Maui is still the hike through Haleakala crater, the same we had done with my parents 12 years ago. Good thing we didn't bring our wings, it was way too windy to even consider flying.Even our golf players had to seriously adjust their game. Interesting to see the spread of an invasive species over much of the highlands on the southwest side - rubber vine.
