Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Peek-A-Boo View of the West Maui Mountains

Or should that be PEAK-A-Boo? 
Taken from our front lanai (name used here in Hawaii for a roofed porch) just after sunrise today. Camera is pointed pretty much due west. It's rare to see these mountains clearly, they are almost always shrouded in clouds. The normal trade winds blow from the east and northeast and slam into higher parts of this mountain range. Clouds build up through the day and end up nearly completely covering the mountains. That's why the rainfall up there is 400 inches a year. The trade winds have stopped (a rare occasion); I think that's why there are no clouds.........
BTW - the front lanai? Great place for a morning cup of coffee!