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Skateboarding => Travel Guide => Topic started by: Dark Knight on February 21, 2015, 05:11:46 AM
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Going to Maui next week for my brother's wedding and I'm just wondering if any of you guys that've been there have any suggestions on what I can get into (food, sights, etc.).
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Go to the town Paia if you're arty. If you're into weed you can score some off the guy that works at the hemp store. Go whale watching. The smaller the boat the better the experience will be. Get on the small inflatable boat that the navy seals use. Sorry I don't remember the company name. There's some nice curbs by the aquarium if you wanna skate. Order a lahaina sunset if you're into cocktails. Bamboo forest. You're going to Maui! Lucky ;D
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Cool, thanks! Anything I should avoid?
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Cool, thanks! Anything I should avoid?
Sea urchins
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red sand beach in hana is rad. bring goggles and you're in another world! i hated maui when i was there but i'm a negative jerk who likes places like cleveland and detroit. enroute to hana [from paia] are some waterfalls, i usedta work at twin falls but further down [mile marker something or other] there were a few w/ less tourists and shit.
climb coconut trees and don't unscrew one, get up in the fronds and kick a few down at a time. it's strenuous shimmying up them bitches. paia had a park built when i was there [04] but had chains on it. the west side [tourist area] had a park, maybe kihei? there's a nude beach over there too, not as cool as it sounds and they frown on hard ons. i know from experience.
oh, i forgot i usedta go to library in makawao. it's halfway up a 36 mile hill to a volcano [haleakala] i usedta bomb 18 miles back, one of the raddest hills i've ever experienced and it spits you out in paia.
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-'The road to Hana' is pretty amazing. Blow holes, waterfalls, fruit that tastes like candy, amazing scenery and vistas.
-Honolua Bay. Even if you don't surf its a stunning location and you might just see one of the best waves on the planet in action, especially in winter. If its calm inside the bay is good snorkeling. I swam with manta rays there, within an hour or so of getting off the plane.
-Big Beach for body surfing.
Plus some really nice looking skateparks, that have been built since I was there.
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Hell yeah! Thanks guys. Any kind of food I need to make sure I eat while I'm there? Looking forward to some fresh seafood...
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Hell yeah! Thanks guys. Any kind of food I need to make sure I eat while I'm there? Looking forward to some fresh seafood...
noni will open up yo chakras!
nah, that's what some broad told me and my ex when she swooped up up hitchhiking. i was fortunate enough to have it growing wild on my property [not 'my' property per se]. we'd get the juice which was more like vinegar than sweet juice and supposedly it was chockablock of nutrients. i can't vouch for the veracity of people's new age claims but supposedly it's super healthy for ya. we might have soaked them in brine come to thing, maybe they weren't naturally vinegar-y.
had avocados above my star pod at another location, they'd fall audibly in the night and i'd pick them off the forest floor in the morning. the ones w/ a little bite missing from rats were the best ones, i'd scavenge them because a rat knows which ones are best.
star fruit are neat, passion fruit don't have much to em but for novelty's sake, put some passion fruit in ya mouth.
basically anything you can pick, have at it.
avoid the evil jub jub bird who gires and gimbles in the wabe but above all fear the evil bandersnatch and jabberwocky, my son.
nah, there's nothing poisonous [mildly irritating/painful sea urchins and stinging centipedes] but what shocked the shit outta me was the sugarcane spiders. size of my hand they were and prevalent!
you're gonna dig the place, it's everything you see on tv. mostly fruit is the only foods i tried there and nowheres else. i caught a giant crayfish [didn't eat cause one crawdad a meal does not make] so if you're good at catching them it's an option.
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Fucking stoked
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New park in lahaina....
If you don't have a ton of free time....don't do road to Hana....takes forever...
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New park in lahaina....
If you don't have a ton of free time....don't do road to Hana....takes forever...
This. But totally worth it
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Bring food....
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What Jsoy said. Hit the wal mart (I normally would not support) right by the airport and stock up on food and drinks. The new park in Lahina looks really good too.
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Did you already go? How was it? Heading there myself at the end of April. Might do the drive myself for the Road to Hana, rather than taking a tour bus.
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there's a super fun little park in Hana. do not go on a tour bus
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Any good ditches on the island?
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Honestly this is one of those places where you should just leave your board at home at take it all in. No skatepark or ditch is going to compete with the scenery, particularly on the east side (Hana). Get stoned eat fruit soak it in.
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Any good ditches on the island?
cole?
And not sure about Maui, but Oahu has TONS
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Any good ditches on the island?
There's a big ass one right next to the Cannery Mall, sometimes it can be wet in the flat bottom. I'd recommend cruiser wheels for sure. Also keep in mind that the ditch runs under/adjacent to an extremely busy road so you may get hassled or at least oggled at.
Lahaina park is rad if you're staying on the west side, and Pukalani park just opened up upcountry. About an hour away by car but pretty worth it in my opinion. Small obstacles around the perimeter of the park with a really fun sized bowl in the middle. Try and skate early in the morning if you can as the heat/humidity makes shit difficult. Night sessions at Lahaina park get gnarly but the lights stay on until 9.
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Im going to Maui in June for a wedding then Kauai for a few days and am clueless about Hawaii. Should I bring my board? Are there spots? I like to skate everywhere I go if possible but I can’t skate tranny.
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Im going to Maui in June for a wedding then Kauai for a few days and am clueless about Hawaii. Should I bring my board? Are there spots? I like to skate everywhere I go if possible but I can’t skate tranny.
There ain't shit to skate in Maui and Kauai expect some poor to mediocre skateparks. If you still want to bring your board to cruise around, make sure you have big soft wheels. Unless you go to Oahu, no real street skating will happen. Just enjoy the paradise and swim in the ocean, it's good for aching bones.
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Im going to Maui in June for a wedding then Kauai for a few days and am clueless about Hawaii. Should I bring my board? Are there spots? I like to skate everywhere I go if possible but I can’t skate tranny.
There ain't shit to skate in Maui and Kauai expect some poor to mediocre skateparks. If you still want to bring your board to cruise around, make sure you have big soft wheels. Unless you go to Oahu, no real street skating will happen. Just enjoy the paradise and swim in the ocean, it's good for aching bones.
This ^ Went there over summer and found that the spots all kinda suck and security is really active it touristy places, got kicked out most of the time. The skateparks are mostly really nice on Maui though.