After our sunrise adventure, Patrick and I went to the grocery store and back to our room to get ready for the rest of the day. I loved the flowers that were just outside our door, especially the orchids. How can you not take pictures of flowers when you're in Hawaii?
Then we decided to drive along the coast a bit to see what we could see. We ended up at the H.A. Baldwin beach which is east of Kahului just before you hit Paia. It was a beautiful day for looking, not so great for being on the beach due to high winds that threw a lot of sand in our faces. Patrick couldn't help himself and had to at least stick his feet in the water.
Then we found the Alexander & Baldwin Sugar Museum which was housed in the old caretaker's home across the street from the still-operating sugar cane processing plant. There were a lot of neat old machines and farm trucks outside used for harvesting and transporting sugar cane. Inside we learned a bit about the different climate regions on the island, the history of irrigation there, and a little about life as an immigrant worker on the sugar plantations.
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