Maui Rentals
Why not go on vacation to the great Hawaiian Island of Maui. It can be a super place for a vacation. You can get a great fun. The weather might be super. There is a tourist culture on the island so there should be good facilities for tourism with entertainment and vacation accomodation.
The island of Maui is the second-largest of the Hawaiian Islands at 727.2 square miles and is the 17th largest island in the United States. Maui is part of the state of Hawaii and is the largest island in Maui County. Three other islands, Lanai, Kahoolawe, and Molokai, also belong to Maui County. Together, the four islands are known as Maui Nui. In 2000, Maui had a population of 117,644, the 3rd largest of the Hawaiian islands, behind that of Oahu and Hawaii. Kahului is the largest town on the island with a population of 20,146. Wailuku is the seat of Maui County.
Two airports provide scheduled air service to Maui:
Kahului Airport in central
Maui, Kapalua Airport in western Maui
The climate of the Hawaiian Islands is characterized by a two season year, mild and uniform temperatures everywhere (except at high elevations), marked geographic differences in rainfall, high relative humidity, extensive cloud formations (except on the driest coasts and at high elevations), and dominant trade-wind flow (especially at elevations below a few thousand feet). Maui itself has a wide range of climatic conditions and weather patterns that are influenced by several different factors in the physical environment:
The Road to Hana is a highway that runs along the east coast Maui which curves along many mountains and beaches. Even though the drive is very long and curvy, the beautiful waterfalls and black sand beaches are well worth it.
Half of
Maui is situated within five miles of the island's coastline. This, and the extreme
insularity of the Hawaiian Islands themselves account for the strong marine influence
on Maui's climate. Gross weather patterns are often determined by an area's elevation
and whether it faces into or away from the Trade winds (prevailing air flow from
the northeast quadrant).
Maui’s rugged, irregular topography produces
marked variations in conditions from one locality to another. Air swept inland
on the Trade winds is shunted one way or another by the mountains, valleys, and
vast open slopes. This complex 3 dimensional flow of air results in striking differences
from place to place in wind speed, cloud formation, and rainfall. When irregular
topography is combined with variations in elevation, marked differences in air
temperature are the result.
Maui's wide variety of landscapes have resulted
from a unique combination of geology, topography, and climate. Each volcanic cone
in the chain of the Hawaiian Islands is built of dark, iron-rich/quartz-poor rocks,
which poured out of thousands of vents as highly fluid lava, over a period of
millions of years. Several of the volcanoes were close enough to each other that
lava flows on their flanks overlapped one another, causing several volcanoes to
merge into a single island. Maui is such a "volcanic doublet", formed
from two shield volcanoes that overlapped one another to form an isthmus between
them.
The older, western volcano has been eroded considerably and is cut by numerous drainages, forming the peaks of the West Maui Mountains (in Hawaiian Mauna Kahalawai). Pu'u Kukui is the highest of the peaks at 5,788 feet. The larger, younger volcano to the east, Haleakala, rises to more than 10,000 feet above sea level, but measures five miles ( from seafloor to summit. The eastern flanks of both volcanoes are cut by deeply incised valleys and steep sided ravines that run downslope to the rocky, windswept shoreline. The valley like Isthmus of Maui that separates the two volcanic masses was formed by recent lava flows and erosion of material from the steep slopes of the volcanoes. This prominent topographic feature is the reason why Maui is known as "The Valley Isle".
The last eruption (originating in Haleakala's Southwest Rift Zone) occurred around 1790; two of the resulting lava flows are located (1) at Cape Kina'u between Ahihi Bay and La Perouse Bay on the southwest shore of East Maui, and (2) at Makaluapuna Point on Honokahua Bay on the northwest shore of West Maui. Although considered to be dormant by volcanologists, Haleakala is certainly capable of further eruptions.
Main Islands
Hawaii, Kahoolawe, Kauai, La-nai, Maui, Molokai, Niihau, Oahu
The island of Maui is one of the four main Hawaiian Islands that formed the much larger island, Maui Nui that submerged about 200,000 years ago, and is now about 1,650 feet below sea level. The other three islands that made this prehistoric island are Lanai, Molokai and Kahoolawe.
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