Today all of our eating was related to our ocean related activity.
After a very standard breakfast a the Marriott Residence Inn in Wailea we went to the beach and snorkeled. We then went to another beach in Kihei, which was a very up scale community. The beaches remind me of the manicured beaches of Santa Monica. We then decided to try the Paia Fish Market in Kihei, which was located several blocks farther south on the beach road.
Suzette settled on Grilled Oprah and I chose an order of Ahi tuna sashimi . Suzette chose a local beer, Red Sand Amber Ale, and I chose a pineapple hard cider, Kona Gold.
Suzette’s Grilled Opah with Cole slaw and country fried red potatoes
Suzette loved her Opah served with Cole slaw and red potato cottage fries. I loved the creamy freshness of my tuna served with chopped cabbage and shredded carrots and pickled ginger and a smear of super hot wasabi in a small cup. I asked for extra pickled ginger and got it.
We ate in an open covered breezeway filled with two rows of picnic tables facing the ocean across the very busy Kihei Drive.
We discussed our next move during lunch and decided to go buy Hawaiian sea salt. I suggested Foodland, which the Concierge at the Marriott had recommended as the best supermarket, with the best poke. When Suzette googled Foodland, she found that it was 400 feet directly across the street from the restaurant.
So after lunch we walked across the street to Foodland. We could not check in to our room until 4:00 so we decided against buying poke, sauces chopped fish. We soon found the sea salt and bought a 5 lb. bag of white and a 1 pound bag of the Red Sea salt. We also bought a bag of milk chocolate covered Macadamia nuts on sale.
As soon as we returned to the car we opened the macadamia nuts and ate some for dessert as we drove to Lahaina. When we arrived in Lahaina at 2:00 we decided to walk along Front Street and look in the shops for a while. As it turned out we parked across the street from Lahaina Grill, probably the best restaurant on the island, so we looked at its menu. The concierge had highly recommended Lahaina Grill, so we might try it.
We looked at the cruise ship art in several galleries and then walked past all the jewelry stores and
tourist souvenir shops until we came to Whalers’ Locker. I saw a $1000 bill in the window and several other rare US currency bills, so we walked in to take a look. I immediately saw a basket full of Tiger Coweries for $5.00 and then several tessalata coweries and huge 200 mm Hawaiian Tiger Coweries on a shelf behind the display counters. There were also smaller lovely 110 mm specimen Hawaiian Tiger coweries. Tiffany helped us and showed us the shells. I was more interested in the 110 mm.Hawaiian Tiger coweries because they were $100 each, while the larger Tigers were $600 each and did not have as much of a polished surface. Tiffany said if we waited 30 minutes when her returned she would fetch several more Hawaiian Tiger coweries that were priced at $60.
So we walked down the street and looked at an antique map and print shop and then returned. The other cheaper coweries had irregularities such as covered abrasions that made then less than specimen
to me.
I ended up buying one of the first two $100.00 Tiger coweries that had darker mottling of brown spots, was less ovate, and no visible orange line across the top of the shell that closely resembled the shell Lorenz was offering as Cowerie Tigrus Schilderium on his website. Here is a picture of what I bought.
This is thebliving animal
We then drove to the resort and were escorted to our room, which turned out to be small but with a terrific balcony with. A view of the beach and ocean and more importantly the room was on the northern end of the property with a landscaped zone and walkway to the beach.
We sat on the balcony and ate cheese and drank the Kula blend white wine and then we walked the beach to the north away from our resort until about 6:00
I noticed that the beach break was sharp, which made it dangerous to swim. We found a restaurant in the next resort north named Castaways and sat at a table on the patio until we were told we would
need to wait for a table, so we took glasses of water and returned to a bench by the beach with a view of the ocean and watched the sunset.
We then returned to the Castaways reception desk and were taken to a table for two next to the patio. After looking at the menu we both decided that two most appealing items were the steamed Maui clams and the Ceasar Salad, that is what we ordered.
We were very satisfied with the Ceasar Salad and amazed by the clams which were garnished with diced Portuguese sausage, parsley, and garlic. The Manila clams were very fresh and plump and full of flavor and the chunks of sausage had a pleasant spiciness and firm texture that complemented the salty plumpness of the clams.
After a surprisingly wonderful dinner, we returned to our room and went to bed.
We have been going to bed at 9:30 and waking at 5:30. I guess we are still on Albuquerque time internally.
Bon Appetit
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