Today we headed South to go to one of the wonderful beaches in Wailea on the South West Coast of Maui. Accordingly, this area is the exclusive (and more expensive)part of the island. It certainly did not look this way on our drive there (took approx 1 hour to get there) although once we turned the final corner, we found a place that felt built entirely for tourism and hence was just hotel after hotel and apartment buildings. Believe it or not there was no nice little town centre where we could get out of the car and enjoy lunch overlooking the ocean – we kind of assumed that such a place would exist (it certainly does near where our house is ….) so we did not pack a picnic. So we ended up in a subway off the main road…

Because it is all hotels on the beach front, they had pretty much claimed all of the beaches as well so we meandered North until we found a car park near a beach, and parked up. Olly was going mad to get on a beach…

The sand was gloriously golden and super soft underfoot – however the water current was exceptionally strong and hence we could not just let the boys play in the surf. In fact Olly got pulled out on at least one occasion and sadly we lost a Lightning McQueen to the wateras well – somehow we got away with this however and soon the loss was forgotten about.

We only spent about 30 minutes on this beach as the stress and burn factor (from the sun) was just too high to handle. We therefore head back to the tranquility of the pool at the house (via Krispy Kreme of course 😉 to relaxing the pool.

Olly was full of it when we got back (having had a nice sleep for a significant portion of the drive) where he has now learned how to jump into the pool unhelped. We are clearly going to need to watch this as he is not frightened of the water one little bit and wants to be in is ALL of the time. Quite the opposite to his big brother who is very steady in the water but is definitely not as quick to jump in etc. We are hopefully going to spend some time at Grandma’s pool when we get back to the UK to get them both swimming properly and safely etc. Target to have them both swimming by Christmas we think…

Olly has now escaped his temperature issues from the flight although his bacterial issue under his left arm is still quite angry – we continue to monitor it…