On Wednesday we almost overslept, because the cell kept on going the whole night, so Tania shut it off.
0552h - waking up with a start. 10 Minutes to get dressed, ready - fortunately we had packed everything we needed the day before - get the car, I got it, because Tania went back for my jacket, and off we went to Lahaina.
0615h - Leaving the hotel and speading to Lahaina, because we were supposed to be at the loading dock at about 0600: possible $50 in speeding tickets.
0620h - Parking the car in one of the public parking spots and realizing that we only brought one 20$ bill, the parking is $12 for 6 hours and the machine doesn’t give change: $20.
0630h - Almost missing the sail boat by being at the loading dock just in time when the passenger loading of the Trilogy IV starts: 392$.
0700h - Enjoying almost surely one of the best sunrises over Maui in our entire life on a sail boat in the middle of the pacific on the way to Lanaii with homemade warm cinnemon rolls, hot coffee and fresh fruits: priceless!!
0730h - We landed in a small harbour at the island of Lanaii.
This island is the birtplace of the Dole Pineapple company and always almost
entirely belonged to that company.
Now it belongs to 98% to a guy named Daniel Murdoch who bought the company. There are 3300 inhabitants on that island, 2200 of which work for the company - either in the fields or for one of the two 4-star resorts on the island. One is on the beach, the other one next to the small town, with its own golf course - both leased to Four Seasons hotels.
We spent most of the day on this beautiful beach next to the four seasons resort,
toasting in the sun and snorkeling. I havent really snorkeled at all in my life and
Tania didnt remember, so we did and it was really, really cool.
Very clear waters, lots of fishies made a very nice snorkeling experience and we had lots of fun. After doing that for a while we took the little bus again for a tour of the island and the little town by a local. Her name was Bridget and she was pretty nice and funny. There wasn’t really a lot to see except a couple houses, 3 or 4 stores and the resort, so it didnt last long.
Back on the beach we roasted in the sun some more - actually Tania did - and I went to
the little rock point only 10 minutes away to take some pictures. 
After about another hour, around 1230h they took us back to the harbour and
served us some delicious food, with teriyaki chicken, asian stir fry and some green beans,
all freshly made. We enjoyed our food opposite a really nice young couple, that we found out was also on honeymoon in the Westin and had been there for almost 2 weeks.
We spent most of the afternoon talking to them and ran into them a couple times over the next days. We actually liked them a lot, so we left our address with them in the hope they’ll contact us.
Anyway, after the nice lunch the captains horded their flock again, made for the ships and sailed back to
Maui with us onboard. It got a lil’ windy during the day, so the ride was a little more bumpy but nonetheless very nice. By about 1530h he had us back in Lahaina Harbour safe and sound.
Since we weren’t feeling at all that well thanks to our colds and wanted to go the toilet we haded back to the hotel, and after a little while took the car again to the Mall in Lahaina to buy some medicines for me and went back to the hotel to get something to eat at the Ono Grill.
