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Little Beach

  • December 11, 2001
  • Rated 4 of 5 by saunter from Berkeley, California
Little Beach

Makena's Little Beach is a slice of life beyond a lava flow's etching. The first time I entered the crescent shaped and shielded white sands my buddy and I had had a long journey with a not-so-detailed free map from the airport. Having traveled for 3-4 hours with directional stops from "the other side" (Hana side) we made it to the famous sands. Exhausted and befuddled with our low oxygen induced laughing silence we hiked up the crumbling red, black and blue lava stumbling over our strap missing slippers (aka flip-flops or thongs).


Relieved to be at the top of the climbing threshold without stubbing our toes, we take a breath to look at the stretching white sands contrasting with aqua blue rolling ocean and black lava cliffs of Makena's Big Beach and continue on.

Around the corner I hear something, a booming. Did I? Yes, more, a jostle of hollow sounds jingle at a lax pace. Turbid beats become clear as the expanse reveals itself. A vortex of warm sound carries me to the light life of jollity and jiggling beings exuding their proponderance of articulate passion, vision, grace, creation and thought.

My vision of self rises above me and slows the shutter of movement. Eyes widening, I float into a crowd of smiling, mingling, doing, being, loving, all seeing angels...


Little Beach holds dancers, swimmers, snorkelers and singers in its zealous palm. Nudists, surfers, kids and Moms and Dads of all styles of being enjoy a vitalizing sun and water filled day in unison. Together each individual heightens the average day of life into an energetic pulse of spirit intertwining their prance of well-being. With the help of the land we manifest some of the moments we live our life for at Little Beach.

Anyone who loves Little Beach whether in Maui for a week or 30 years treat it as they would their own backyard, practicing with fervor what puts a sparkle in their day in the sun, in the sand, with the breeze and to the sway of the ocean.

Do your yoga stretches, run up and down the beach, spin poi balls and the staff, sleep and read and bask, swim laps, surf, body surf, boogie board, snorkel with the turtles and tropical fish, dive to the bottom of blue green white sands, make sand angels with your body, and toss wet sand at your buddy during the day. When the sun goes down over the ocean and the island Kahoolawe hoot, holler, sing, drum, dance, jump up and down, and into the ocean. Then join the higher resonance of drumming, dancing and singing.

A magical place to gather and make music with friends on Sundays and relax and unwind in the spirit of your own mind every day of the week, Maui offers feast sharers, melody makers, mermaids and surfers the flow of the rolling tides of Little Beach.


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