The tsunami, thankfully, was a bust. On the west side of Maui, where we are, the waves only reached 1 1/2 feet above normal. We visited the north side of the island today, the most vulnerable side, and saw one area where the water barely splashed over the sand berm into the parking lot. Nothing unusual. The locals took it in stride relating that "this stuff happens all the time".
We spent the day driving, with Vicki and Ed, the central part of Maui, rising up some 3500 feet to view pastoral settings, cattle ranches, a few farms, a winery, and a memorial to Sun Yat Sen. SYS spent part of his boyhood and early adulthood here in Maui, returning to his native China to lead a revolution for the establishment of the Chinese republic, 1912. He is still very revered in China but many of his democratic efforts were drowned out by the conflict between Mao and Chiang Kai-shek.
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| Vicki and Ed joined us to wait out the tsunami. |
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| From 2000 feet looking northwest up the west coast of Maui |
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| The high country roads. |
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| Sun Yat Sen memorial |
Our day ended with a visit to the village of Paia on the north central coast.
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