Now that Star has completed her two month critical hire at the park, we are ready to fire back up the blog machine.  It was a tough assignment, involving several weekend work days, but it has provided her much inspiration to start writing some short stories.  Personally, I can't wait to see what she comes up with. 

And while on the subject of writing, we just received a copy of the July 2014 edition of the English Journal in the mail, and Star's submission was the featured poem.  Way to go, Star!

 

 

Early September, we attended Maui's annual Blues and Jazz Festival in Lahaina.  A great event with superb talent located in an "out of this world" venue.  

Good thing we had a room.  The culprit was Maui Ocean Vodka
and cranberry juice.

View from our Seats

 

 

Another view from our seats

Shaka Star on the Waihee Ridge Trail

 

Descending the Ridge

Water Project and Our Temporary Water Tank on the slopes
of Haleakala

Climbed down below the crater lookout earlier this month
to find a place to build scaffolding to replace windows



Don't want to fall from here.  2,500 ft. down into the crater