4 Kuleana
Local filmmaker Brian Kohne brings 1970s Maui vividly to life with a story of Hawaiian pride, responsibility and redemption. Island actors performed in the production, which debuted under the stars at the Maui Film Festival, winning the Audience Choice Award. Kuleana went on to win Audience Choice at the San Antonio Film Festival, and Best Feature at the Tribal Film Festival in Cherokee County, Oklahoma. Kohne hopes for statewide theatrical release early in 2018. Eh, you guys stay famous now!
5 Marriott’s Wailea Beach Resort pool
Are the cabanas floating in the infinity pool too serene for you? Then torpedo down one of the resort’s four new waterslides! The Big Kahuna spirals down 325 feet; it’s the longest slide in the state.
6 Frogfish
Stand-up comedians have nothing on these camouflaged reef walkers. Look (closely) for them at Ulua Beach on the Wailea coast, or on the wreck of the St. Anthony, an old shrimp boat sunk there to create an artificial reef.
7 Hale Hō‘ike‘ike
This site at the mouth of ‘Īao Valley has serious mana (life force). Kahekili II, the last ruling chief of Maui, lived here. In 1833, the first Western-style house in the region was built here with coral bricks and sandalwood beams. It served as a girls’ seminary and then the residence of Edward Bailey, a missionary and inspired painter. Now the Maui Historical Society calls it home, and hosts stimulating workshops and concerts in the garden.
