Thursday, July 24, 2008

Giant Cloud and a Boat

Or - Cane Burning on Maui and the Maui Cruiseship

Driving down Haleakala into town a couple weekends ago we were greeted by this massive cloud. It was pretty amazing and even beautiful if only it wasn't generated by cane burning :\ We see clouds from cane burning all the time..but this one just seemed more massive and poofy and more white even. Maybe I was just closer to it, I don't know. These pictures make it seem smaller...don't really show how awesome looking it was..I guess its one of those "you had to be there"





Here you can see it generating from the ground..over near Paia where they must have been burning...








and this was the next mornings drive down the hill..we could see the cruiseline ship coming in from all the way up the hill...

6 comments:

MaricrisG said...

Awesome! makes me wanna dive into the water! ah i miss the ocean...

- Maricris

Unknown said...

Fabulous shots. Thanks for sharing them. :-))

kuanyin333 said...

As you know, I'm a sucker for sky and cloud shots as witnessed by my blog Maui Skies. :-) These are great photos you posted here. What kind of camera do ya have?

Jonara Blu Maui said...

glad everyone is enjoying these..I just took them from the car..through the car window lol! with my little sony cybershot.

Kuanyin was not kidding about her loving sky shots..I checked out her blog and she's got some great ones over there..go check them out!

Unknown said...

Beautiful! My husband walked by as I was looking at these shots and they stopped him in his tracks...and he's not easily distractable LOL You live in such a beautiful place!

ChezChani said...

What is cane burning? Is it a good thing or a bad thing?
Gorgeous shots, probably can't get a bad picture when the views are so spectacular. I might have to live somewhere beautiful again someday.