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Kau ka ‘onohi ali‘i i luna.

“The royal eyes rest above.” In old Hawai‘i, a rainbow symbolized the presence of a god or chief.

—Mary Kawena Pukui, ‘Olelo No‘eau

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26 The Power of Print THE HAWAIIAN SHIRT AS ART, STORY AND STYLE TEXT BY JOCELYN FUJII

34 The Art of Contradiction T WO MAUI ARTISTS REFLECT THE PARADOX OF GLASS

48 Wa‘a, Wanderlust

62 For Love of Tennis

TOMMY HOLMES PREDICTED THAT HAWAIIAN CANOES WOULD SHRINK THE WORLD

TEXT BY ROB COLLIAS

and the World

PAINTINGS BY JOSEPH STRONG AND ROBERT WALKER

TEXT BY ILIMA LOOMIS

56 Cracking the Code

40 Liquid Light

A FOODIE’S GUIDE TO THE MACADAMIA NUT

THE WAVES OF WAILEA HAVE MANY FACES

HANGING OUT WITH THE PROS

70 It’s the Only Rock We Eat HAWAIIAN SALT IS AS NATIVE AS SOIL AND STONE TEXT BY JOCELYN FUJII

TEXT BY PAUL WOOD

PHOTOGRAPHY BY ZACH PEZZILLO

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82 D E PA R T M E N T S

6 Welcome Letter From Bud Pikrone

20 Faces of Wailea

84 Redefining Retail

THE SPIRIT OF ALOHA IN WAILEA

THE ART OF SHOPPING

8 Contributors

PHOTOGRAPHY BY RACHEL OLSSON

10 Lei of the Land

76 Wailea Dining Guide

GET TING AROUND WAILEA

FARE TO REMEMBER

16 Wailea Hall of Fame

80 Resorts, Amenities and More

WHO’S ROCKING BEHIND THE SCENES TEXT BY CARLA TRACY

WHERE TO STAY AND WHAT TO DO

82 Living, Wailea Style HEALTH, GLAMOUR AND ALL GOOD THINGS

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96 Aloha Moment PHOTOGRAPHY BY BOB BANGERTER

ON THE COVER

In this image, titled “Purple Evening,” photographer Stuart Soley captures the brilliance of a sunset as reflected in the waves of a Wailea beach.

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With the fabulous 15th Maui Film Festival at

Wailea having led us into summer, we’ve been enjoying longer days at the beach and in the calm waters along our shore.

Now as the slightly cooler temperatures of fall are upon us, we look forward to the festive season when many of our homeowners and annual guests return.

During this season, the resort comes alive with myriad musical prospects and events for malihini and kama‘āina alike.

The sun and ocean activities never cease in Wailea, and there’s always something happening at any time of the day and year.

Enjoy the warm and gracious hospitality of Hawai‘i along with ‘ukulele, hula, surfing, canoe rides and paddle-boarding, all a part of the rich traditions that we honor in Wailea. Our resort has something for everyone’s style and mood.

You can start your day with a stunning sunrise over Haleakalā as you sip coffee on a lānai. At the end of the day, relish the blazing sunset while strolling on a storied beach walk. Whether at the beach, on the water, or in a canoe, spa or ocean-view dining room, you’ll find that every day at Wailea is a dream come true.

This magazine has been created to take you on a journey through Wailea’s cultural past and into today’s special resort lifestyle. We hope you make it a part of your memories at home, and that it brings you back soon.

Mahalo a nui loa for sharing your time with us here in Wailea.

Kipa hou mai!

(Come visit again!)

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Jocelyn Fujii

DESIGN DIRECTOR ART DIRECTOR

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Olga D’Astoli, Teri Samuels

PHOTO EDITOR

Rachel Olsson

Robert Collias, Ilima Loomis, Carla Tracy, Paul Wood

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CONTRIBUTORS

Ilima Loomis

Paul Wood

The Art of Contradiction, p. 34 Ilima Loomis is an award-winning journalist and author who lives with her family and three dogs in Ha‘ikü, Maui. She’s covered stories ranging from volcano tourism to Aung San Suu Kyi, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. She finds inspiration in writing about artists and other creative people and has written for a variety of local and national publications, including Spirituality & Health and National Geographic Traveler.

Cracking the Code, p. 56 He’s no chef but is a pretty good cook, and mac nuts now sit prominently on his kitchen counter.

They sustain him as he finishes writing “Spell of the Sea Witch,” a book about great sailing ships and an ingenious man who still builds them. Paul has received numerous writing awards. He also teaches creative writing at University of Hawai‘i Maui College and provides writing programs to all schools.

His special interest is literacy in early childhood.

Rob Collias

Carla Tracy

For Love of Tennis, p. 62 Rob Collias is an award-winning sports writer who has written for The Maui News since 1990.

He has worked in Eugene, Oregon; Portland, Oregon (where he covered the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games); Honolulu and the Valley Isle.

He lives with his wife, Denise, in Kïhei, has two kids and has written for Baseball America, USA Today Baseball Weekly, USA Today, Golf magazine and Golf World magazine.

Wailea Hall of Fame, p. 16 Carla Tracy has savored Maui’s cuisine for decades as the dining editor of The Maui News. She’s always out on the town attending island events and judging food contests, which makes her the perfect candidate for spotting celebrities. She is this year’s Hawai‘i winner of the Society of Professional Journalism Awards for long-form newspaper feature writing.

Carla and her husband live in Central Maui, where they grow bananas and are avid boaters.

Dana Edmunds

Zach Pezzillo

The Art of Contradiction, p. 34 Dana began his career on Maui as a surf photographer and is now a commercial photographer who shoots for various editorial, advertising and action-sports clients in Hawai‘i and throughout the world. He describes himself as “happily married, with two kids, a dog and a chicken.”

A regular contributor to this magazine, he’s a prominent member of Hawai‘i’s photography and journalism community.

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Zach grew up on Maui and began his career as an award-winning photographer at the young age of 12.

Currently he is a third-year student at the Rochester Institute of Technology, studying scientific photography.

He is especially interested in using his skills to promote an awareness of the importance of conservation, particularly here in Hawai‘i. For this, his first contribution to Wailea magazine, Zach spent many hours at Wailea’s beaches, capturing their many moods and textures.

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W A I L E A WAILEA is nestled on the leeward side of South Maui. Only 30 minutes from the Kahului Airport, just south of the town of Kīhei, Wailea is easily accessible by automobile. The main entrances to Wailea’s luxurious beachfront resorts are located along Wailea Alanui. All of Wailea’s resorts, along with golf, tennis, dining and shopping, are within a few minutes’ drive of your resort or condominium. The 1.5-mile Coastal Walk affords easy access to the beachfront resorts. During the winter months, the Wailea Coastal Walk provides the ideal location to watch the sun set into the Pacific Ocean. The sun melts into the tranquil waters ... and if you watch closely, you may just catch a glimpse of the humpback whales playing in our inviting waters.

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Wailea Hall of Fame For Sports Fans Oscar-winning actress Helen Hunt cut a sporty profile while stand-up paddling at Andaz Maui at Wailea. Of course, Wailea’s waters are as good as it gets … Super Bowl MVP Malcolm Smith kept in top shape at Grand Wailea’s cascading pools … Also spotted at Grand Wailea’s pools were actor Hank Azaria with a BabyBjorn attached; actor James Marsden (“X Men”); and Ashley Wagner, U.S. Olympic medalist ice skater … Swimming at Polo Beach near The Fairmont Kea Lani, Maui were comedian Chris Rock; Andre Carter of the New England Patriots; Patrick Monahan (lead singer of Train) and Colin O’Donoghue of ABC’s “Once Upon a Time” … Dressed like one of the guys, rocker Alice Cooper teed off in Wailea and golfed with Joe Gannon, Maui restaurateur and former rock concert lighting producer.

Art Lovers Only The Shops at Wailea’s most famous, well, shopper, Paris Hilton, purchased an original oil painting of Marilyn Monroe at a Shops at Wailea art gallery. “Sitting Pretty” is now hanging pretty in her Beverly Hills mansion … Rage Against the Machine frontman Tom Morello talked about politics and social issues recently at an art gallery in Wailea … To add to the wattage, Bob Gruen, perhaps the world’s best-known rock ’n’ roll photographer and the former personal picture-taker of John Lennon, was also spotted at a gallery in Wailea. He’s displayed the Rolling Stones, the Sex Pistols and others at The Shops at Wailea, where Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler has put his vibrant skull art on display.

Dining Out Actor-comedian Steve Carrell appeared at ease and debonair, anything but a 40-year-old virgin, as he double-dated at Spago. Cutting out of “The Office” for a Spago feast was actor Rainn Wilson, who played Dwight Schrute on the hilarious series … Fairmont Kea Lani, Maui’s Willow Stream Spa is soaring with its designation as Travel + Leisure’s #1 hotel spa in Hawai‘i in its World’s Best awards. A few feet away is Kō, the signature plantation-style restaurant with a modern twist, where Crooner Natalie Cole had an unforgettable meal, and where Executive Chef Tylun Pang is a perennial favorite … Actor Charlie Sheen dined at Māla Restaurant & Lounge with his new fiancée, recently retired adult-film star Brett Rossi. They ordered like two-and-a-half men and 16

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Famous chefs Dean Fearing and Mark Tarbell also checked out Migrant and Māla. Fearing is the “Father of Southwestern Cuisine” and author of the “Texas Food Bible.” Tarbell won “Iron Chef America’s” fifth season … Looking spectacular, Jennifer Love Hewitt dined at Wailea restaurants and stayed at the luxury villas of Ho‘olei at Grand Wailea.

Music to Our Ears Band Loving Mary debuted at Mulligans on the Blue, where celebrity sightings have included Chris Noth, “Big” on “Sex and the City,” and Erik Spoelstra, Miami Heat basketball coach, who came to watch the magic show ... Chris Kirkpatrick of NSync and his bride, Karly, also spent time at Mulligans while staying at Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea. Chris enjoyed The Celtic Tigers and returned for the Willie K dinner show … Fleetwood Mac’s Mick Fleetwood towered above the disco crowd at Studio 65, a one-night setup at Gannon’s for celebrity chef-owner Beverly Gannon’s surprise birthday bash, complete with an entertainer jumping out of a fake cake and a real cake spinning like a disco ball.

Starry Nights He was in the wings as a manager of rock stars and celebrity chefs, but now Maui’s own Shep Gordon is a bona fide movie star. The documentary “Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon” celebrated its Hawai‘i premiere at Maui Film Festival’s new Seaside Cinema at Grand Wailea. It was Mike Myers’ directorial debut (he hung out for two months at Shep’s oceanfront estate in South Maui). Keith Carradine presented Shep with the Maverick Award for an individual “who has the courage of their convictions.” Also a singer, Keith performed his Oscar-winning “I’m Easy” earlier this year at Shep’s Māla benefit.

Super Novas Emma Roberts (daughter of actor Eric Roberts and niece of Julia Roberts) received the Shining Star Award at the festival; Evan Rachel Wood (“Mildred Pierce”) got the Maui Film Festival’s Nova Award; and Oscar-winner Lupita Nyong’o (“12 Years a Slave”) was presented with the Rainmaker Award. We hear she’s been cast in the next “Star Wars” saga. And the Triple Threat Award went to Joe Manganiello.

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(This page) Courtesy of Sig Zane Designs; (Opposite) Courtesy of Tori Richard

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colorful emblems, but there are few that surpass the aloha shirt. It’s both regional and international, silent and expressive, historical and contemporary. And while shirts don’t usually speak, Hawai‘i’s version is a fierce storyteller, a visual chronicle and peerless part of Hawai‘i’s cultural vocabulary.

Key to the genre’s popularity, say two premier Island shirt makers, is the art of the textile print. Ranging from the humorous to the divine and everything in between, Hawaiian shirt prints have inspired nostalgia, music, books and even a museum or two. Tailoring, fit, details and styling play a part in the shirt’s prominence, but the driving force behind the Hawaiian shirt has always been the artistry of the textile.

(Opposite page) Tori Richard’s “Shibori” print.

(Previous spread from left) Sig Zane’s “Ka Uluwehi o Ke Kai;” Tori Richard’s “Ocean.”

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THE POWER OF REPETITION Sig Zane, the mastermind behind the nearly 30-year Sig Zane Designs, has a unique approach to the screen-printing technique he has always used on his fabrics. The repetitiveness of the Hawaiian chant, he believes, can be applied with great benefit to the complex process of hand-screening. As the Hawaiian chant empowers, so, Zane believes, can the redundancy of the screen-printing process. As a hula dancer, fisherman and the husband of Nalani Kanaka‘ole, one of Hawai‘i’s most esteemed kumu hula, Zane has strong moral authority on this.

“The Hawaiians strongly believe in the repetitive nature of things,” he says. “What we bring to the shirt is similar to the chant.” Flocks of birds in their repetitive behavior, waves washing ashore, seasonal cycles and planetary movements are among the myriad things historically celebrated in the Hawaiian chant. Zane and his ‘ohana also believe that “the redundancy, the repetition, in a chant will cause it to eventually manifest.”

The chants of his family and of the seven-generation

Hālau O Kekuhi, which his wife leads as kumu hula, are “chants of supplication,” he says. “We are asking something. And we believe that when something is recited it will eventually manifest, because with each recitation, it goes out into the universe.” Consequences, he says, come with the sincerity of the chanting.

As a family business, the Zanes apply to their textiles the same principles and affirmations they use in their life of hula. “Every screen is only 24 inches, but we repeat it over and over and over,” says Zane. “And that intention, in that art, is put out there every time.”

Every conscious swipe of the screen printer’s blade imbues the fabric with “intention and mana (spiritual power),” he says.

“Every one of the boys doing the screening puts his own personal mana into it. Some people say, ‘Look at this, it doesn’t look like that piece five yards down the table … ’ But those are the inconsistencies, the imperfections of the human hand. We want to retain that in our fabric.”

Each motif, usually botanical or geometric, is culturally meaningful to the Hawaiians. With steady hand and focused intention, Zane uses a razor-sharp X-Acto knife to cut the design into Amberlith, a thin sheet of transparent plastic. The 8.5- by 11-inch design is digitized, some computer magic follows, and various elements are combined to ultimately tell the story.

“Liko Ka Liko I Ka Ua” is the name of a popular Sig Zane design depicting young leaf buds (liko).

It means, literally, “the liko sprouts in the rain.” But metaphorically, notes Zane, it means “‘Nourish your children, and they will grow strong.’ We’ve done it kind of bold, because we wanted to make a statement.”

Kuha‘o Zane, Sig’s son and the 32-year-old head of design and marketing, adds his own special touches to the process with the assistance of graphics designer

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Brandy Serikaku, a vital link in the process. Like an architect in two dimensions, Kuha‘o is the technical wizard who assembles and composes the visual elements into a final printable design. “Ka Uluwehi o Ke Kai,” a Sig Zane design commemorating the 50th anniversary of Merrie Monarch in 2013, was a masterful composition.

“There’s the limu (seaweed), there’s the geometric image, and there’s the over-all image, which, when you see from afar, reveals the swirls,” Kuha‘o explained. Every element was hand-cut in Amberlith: the fine tangles of seaweed, the swirls of ocean current, and the geometric, the maka ‘upena, or the eyes of the fishnet. The limu is not just seaweed, but a specific type of seaweed called lipoa, celebrated in a much-loved song and hula by Edith Kanaka‘ole.

“All these elements look totally different from each other, but we wanted to figure out a way to make them all work in one print,” continued Kuha‘o.

To unite those elements, he used the swirls as a “grouping” mechanism. The result is a rich, multilayered story expressing personal family history (Edith Kanaka‘ole’s groundbreaking song), ocean-related cultural practices (limu, lipoa and the fisherman’s net) and the unifying power of the ocean.

THE ART OF THE PRINT Equally committed to textile art, the Honolulu-based Tori Richard guards an archive of 25,000 prints spanning its 58 years of making men’s and women’s resort wear. The archive is a treasure trove of visual storytelling, a vibrant chronicle of the cycles of popular culture in Hawai‘i and beyond. Two thousand outlets across the country and countless more around the world are sharing those wearable stories, those lifestyle maps, in their global retail communities.

Josh Feldman, CEO, is an art enthusiast and keen observer of cultural trends. He points not just to a print’s content, but its scale, too, as a reliable barometer of change.

“When I look at our print themes over the last 50 years, I don’t see huge shifts,” he commented. “The real giveaway of the age of the print is the coloration and the scale. For example, flowers tend to get larger or smaller with larger trends. In general, now, it seems that the trend is smaller.”

Tori Richard prints clearly represent certain eras in the company’s history, which in turn correspond to the cultural trends of the time. A romp through the archives is a visual feast, yielding rich insights into cyclical themes: the tribal kapa (tapa) and pareu prints of the tiki-obsessed 1950s; prisms and the dizzying optic graphics of the 1960s; wild and zany color combinations, along with Asian motifs, in the 1970s; 3-D shapes, parabolas and lattice graphics in the 1980s, often in clean, preppy colors; and throughout, images and colors in a scale that evolves with each era. In the 1970s and ’80s, the large-scale, dramatic prints in vogue were often in Asian-inspired cloud and bird motifs. From the 1990s on, high-quality embroidered silks and jacquards bore lavish engineered prints of such things as dragons, fish and martinis. In the luxury liner era of the 1930s, when Art Deco was the rage in art, Hawai‘i, with its doors creaking open to tourism, was a stylish hot spot for the zeitgeist. “Boat Day Aloha,” with its 1930s print, comes from the cover of the dining menu of the S.S. Lurline and is a top seller today.

But Feldman cautions that judging the provenance of a print can be deceiving. Because textile prints are so cyclical, he says, a print might have the look of the 1930s but have come from a different era, as in “Boat Day Aloha.” It could have actually been

(Opposite page) “Boat Day Aloha,” one of Tori Richard’s popular prints, depicts the romanticized notion of the Islands prevalent in the heyday of the luxury liners that plied Island waters in the ’30s and ’40s.

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Scale and size matter. made later, such as in the ’50s or ’60s or even yesterday, he says, because the art and influence of the time is so profound that it keeps returning. “This is why the scale of the artwork is one of the bigger indicators of the period which the print represents,” adds Feldman.

“Shibori,” a timeless Japanese-inspired print, goes back to the 1970s and is one of the company’s iconic images, returning cyclically through the generations.

It’s possible for a father to have worn that print in the 1970s and his son to wear it, in a different fabric, in the years past 2000. Prints called “Marquesas” have returned, and “Jungelaya,” “Leaf Study” and “Balboa” remain timeless and relevant—and available—today.

“Interestingly, I think the only real trend that we see over time is prints—whether they go large or small,” he added. “The main indicators seem to be color and size. If I look at our print themes over the last 50 years, I don’t see huge shifts. The real giveaway for the age of the print is the coloration and the scale.”

A NOD TO NOSTALGIA Even tiki prints can be deceptively reproduced today, even trendy, but not for Tony Apilado. As art director for “The Haumana,” Keo Woolford’s award-winning film, Apilado provided the costumes from his extensive personal collection of vintage Hawaiian shirts. Out of more than 70 shirts and jackets, three dozen of his cotton vintage tiki shirts were selected for use in the film.

The criteria weren’t limited to style and print. “We asked ourselves, ‘Will it go with the sky? The house? The location?’” mused Apilado. The shirts had to fit the scenario, set the mood, provide information and a historical reference. From cheesy to progressively more elegant, they also reflected the arc of the character’s transformation while paying homage to the tiki pop culture of decades past. ❀

(This page) A 1930s tiki print and jacket, from Tony Apilado’s extensive vintage collection.

His collection, which provided the costumes for the awardwinning film “The Haumana,” reflected the lead character’s arc of transformation.

(Opposite page) “Maka‘upena,” referring to the fisherman’s net, from Sig Zane Designs.

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For Karuna Santoro, glass is the medium; for the painter Robena, it’s the message. Yet both Maui artists are inspired by its contradictions: strength and fragility, transparency and reflection, sharp edges and smooth curves.

THE MEDIUM (This page) Artist Karuna Santoro works in her studio to create her kiln-fired murrini art. (Opposite page) Half science and half art, a finished plate vibrates with color.

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“Please keep your shoes on,” Karuna Santoro says as she holds open the door. It feels unnatural and wrong to be treading across her immaculate living room carpet in flats, but we remain shod.

Her breezy lānai studio is cleanly swept, but still—this is a glasswork studio, and there might be tiny slivers that could find their way into our feet.

The morning sun slants through her studio, illuminating tubs of glass pellets neatly sorted by color and pattern—deep, puckery reds; cool blues; crystalline greens; an occasional opaque yellow, like jars of shimmering penny candies.

Working in a technique called kiln-forming, Santoro, a murrini artist, lays the chips of glass in a flat, round form, piece by piece. Earlier she had pulled and melted layers of colored glass into long strands, then chopped the cooled rods into short, cylindrical pellets, revealing interesting designs within the cross-section. If she’s feeling orderly, she might lay them out in a neat pattern; on days that are more free-form, her design might swirl forth like a nebula or a luminescent drop of pond water. Trained as a medical technologist in Germany, Santoro finds an organic quality to these pieces. “Sometimes it reminds me of looking at tissue samples through a microscope,” she says.

Santoro’s process is half art, half science. “It’s a technical medium to work with,” she says.

Each bowl requires as much planning and preparation as intuition. Pinned neatly to her studio wall, a color wheel of swatches helps her strategize designs. Many kinds of glass will change color after they’ve been melted and cooled, so she’s had to learn to imagine what the final product will look like.

After her pattern is final, Santoro fires the form in her kiln, heating it to a temperature of 1,500 degrees to fuse the glass pellets into a thick, smooth plate. After polishing the edges with a belt sander, she’ll fire it again at 1,200 degrees to achieve the finished shape of the bowl. “The glass is just soft enough at that temperature that gravity can pull it into the mold,” she says.

A former mosaic and stained-glass artist, Santoro began studying murrini 12 years ago. “It takes experience,” she says. “I’m finally at a point where I can anticipate what will happen with the glass.

“I still sometimes open my kiln and say, ‘Oh my god.’ There’s a learning curve,” she continues. “But that’s part of the fun, too. Every time, I’m surprised when I open the kiln.”

Santoro leans against her workbench and carefully runs her thumb over the sharp, unfinished edge of her latest piece. “I love glass because it’s so full of contradictions—it’s fragile, but it’s strong,” she says. Later, she’ll grind this piece against her belt sander to polish it smooth; but when she fires it, she’ll need to give it a full 24 hours to heat and cool—any faster and it could shatter.

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“There’s a meditative aspect to laying out the design,” she says. “The other thing is, you really have to be ‘there.’ If you space out, you can cut yourself.”

FOR THE ARTIST ROBENA, space and scale are as significant as form and color are to Santoro.

“I always wanted to do giant work,” she says as we view one of her paintings, a rose nearly as tall as she is. “It makes such an impact on the space—you really have to deal with it.”

An early ambition to paint larger than life helped her stumble upon the technique that has become her signature. To stretch her materials on a young artist’s budget, Robena—who mixes all her own colors from a palette of magenta, cyan and yellow—took to watering down her paints and working with a raw canvas. The result was a wash, with the canvas soaking up the colors like a stain to create a smooth, photographic texture with no visible brush strokes.

“Because of this technique, I can get big areas to look really soft,” she says.

We pad across the cool concrete floor of her Pukalani studio to stand before her work-inprogress, a still life of antique Japanese bottles. To blend her watered-down acrylics, Robena paints from the shadows out: she begins with the darker shades and layers wash over wash until the image emerges into the light.

She’s been known for her meditative waterscapes and oversized flowers, but lately it’s glass that has captured her imagination. The way the curve of a bottle’s neck warps and distorts the light, or the way color slides over its raised lettering, pleases her eye. “It’s almost like it has its own light source,” she says.

Robena began painting glass after finding herself stuck with “painter’s block.” Having completed a series of flowers, unsure of what she’d focus on next, she turned to her collection of antique bottles and began photographing them. “They were in the window,” she recalls, “and I was just noticing how beautiful and abstract the shapes were, and all the colors.”

In extreme close-up on her giant canvas, the smooth contours and sloping edges, and the interplay between transparency and reflection, take on a mysterious, dreamlike quality. “I love abstract art, but I’m a representational painter,” she says. “I like the way the light travels through the distortion.”

In one of her favorite recent pieces, a single curving line provides the only clue that the viewer is looking at a near photographic still life of Japanese glass fishing floats. “The rest,” she says, “is all chaos.”

We go upstairs to look at her collection of glass artifacts. Sitting cross-legged in front of her coffee table, we handle them one by one—roly-poly fishing floats; wide-lipped carafes from Haleakalā Dairy and Parker Ranch; a svelte bottle from Takitani’s Star Soda in Wailuku.

Suddenly I laugh, pick up a tiny vial and run a fingertip over the raised kanji, as calligraphic Japanese characters are called. Here is the colossal, abstracted column of embossed glass from her work-in-progress downstairs: a diminutive Japanese medicine bottle no bigger than my thumb.

For Robena, those tricks of proportion and scale are just another beautiful distortion. “It makes me so happy just to be lost inside that wobbly thing,” she says. “You would never look at it that way if it were just a glass on a shelf.” ❀

THE MESSAGE (This page) The artist Robena, above, paints in large scale.

Her brushes, left, and bottle collection, far left, are creative tools.

(Opposite page) A Robena canvas of antique bottles.

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Tommy Holmes launched his book, “The Hawaiian Canoe,” like the true waterman that he was—with one eye to the past and the other toward distant horizons. When Holmes released his book in 1981, the Polynesian Voyaging Society (PVS) he helped establish was eight years old and in the infancy of its global mission. It was a mission he shared with PVS co-founders Ben Finney and Herb Kawainui Kane: of uniting the world through non-instrument navigation and reviving a legacy of exploration. The PVS has flourished in the decades since, reaching a crescendo last May with the celebrated departure of Hōkūle‘a, the 62-foot, double-hulled Polynesian voyaging canoe it sponsors.

Hōkūle‘a’s 47,000-mile, four-year circumnavigation of the world is expected to touch 26 countries and more than 80 ports, uniting Oceania in unprecedented ways. Some features of the canoe have changed in the decades since her first voyage to Tahiti in 1976, and she now has a sister vessel, the 72-foot Hikianalia.

Tommy Holmes may not be here to witness this event, but he displayed remarkable prescience of Hōkūle‘a’s possibilities in the pages of “The Hawaiian Canoe.” Many of the achievements Holmes discusses as voyaging possibilities are now, decades later, a fait accompli.

Holmes died on August 23, 1993, shortly after suffering a heart attack while paddling a wa‘a, an outrigger canoe, in the upper Ala Wai Canal not far from Waikīkī Beach. Five days later, with hundreds paying tribute from shore, Hōkūle‘a scattered his ashes off Waikīkī.

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From “The Hawaiian Canoe” by Tommy Holmes, courtesy of Editions Limited, now an imprint of Bess Press. Bess Press will publish a new edition of the book in 2015. For more information, visit www.besspress.com.

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Double-hulled voyaging canoes were surely more narrowly spaced than modern catamarans. This was due primarily to the limited ability of the wooden

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European ships in Island waters. The painting is one of four by Walker at The Fairmont Kea Lani, Maui.

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cross-pieces and coconut fiber lashing to withstand the phenomenal stress the ocean imposes on a widetrack double-hull craft. Probably as a result of this narrow hull spacing, the sail area was kept relatively small (three hundred square feet on the Hōkūle‘a) as a safety factor prior to overturning. Furthermore, the strength limitations of the hala leaf material made large sails more likely to rip. The sail design of the Hōkūle‘a, a Polynesian “sprit,” seems to have been fairly widespread throughout prehistoric Polynesia and is probably representative of the type of sail that an early voyaging canoe might have used in coming to Hawai‘i.

Considered performance accurate, though constructed with modern materials, the Hōkūle‘a is able to make a 70- to 75-degree course to windward. While not an outstanding performance by today’s standards, it is very likely comparable to an ancient voyaging canoe, or for that matter to an early European ship. The canoe in moderate to strong tradewinds is able to average 3 to 5 knots on a course into the wind and 6 to 10 knots on a beam or down-wind leg. An average day’s run for the Hōkūle‘a is about one hundred miles. A run of 130 miles, though, for a twenty-fourhour period is not unusual. Some days have been as high as 150 miles or more.

Conversely, western-designed vessels, such as those the Europeans used to rediscover the Pacific, were generally a good deal slower than a typical Polynesian voyaging canoe was under comparable conditions. Early European explorers in the Pacific commented on the remarkable speed and maneuverability of various Pacific islanders’ canoes compared to their own relatively cumbersome craft.

The European tended to view the ocean as an adversary. As though to overpower the ocean while maintaining a bond to terra firma, Europeans almost blindly transposed concepts of land-based architecture to a very dissimilar marine environment. Their awkward craft reflected the Europeans’ lack of communion with the world Polynesians called home—the ocean.

Naval architecture was a highly developed science to the peoples of Oceania.

Well integrated into their marine environment, early Pacific peoples designed craft that were sea kindly, calculated for speed and in some cases so hydrodynamically advanced that it would not be until the 1800s that man would build faster sailboats. The flexible joining mode of joining two hulls that so characterized Polynesian voyaging canoes and so shocked European observers for their supposed fragility is just now being recognized as often superior to a rigid form of attachment.

Pacific historian G. S. Parsonson writes: “There is abundant evidence to show that the ships [canoes] of Polynesia and Micronesia were much more weatherly than contemporary European vessels.”

The recent voyages of the Hōkūle‘a demonstrate that such canoes were quite capable of negotiating journeys of great distance …

THE COMPASS IN THE MIND “His head all same as compass.” Such were the immortal words, in 1860, of a captain of a canoe that had just arrived after a voyage of several hundred miles across open ocean without the aid of navigation instruments. He was casually comparing the skills and abilities of his navigator to the compass of the astonished master of the ship Morning Star. Having no

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As the single most important artifact in Hawaiian culture, the Hawaiian canoe is evocative of many

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Waikīkī’s protected waters have always made it a favorite of fishermen, villagers and chiefs.

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Joseph Strong’s painting acknowledges Diamond Head as integral to Waikīkī’s appeal.

instruments, charts or written language, the ancient Polynesian navigator charted his pathways in his mind: he read the stars; he listened to the winds; he observed telltale flotsam and jetsam; he understood the language of the sea. Of an elite brotherhood, the highly trained master Polynesian navigator possessed a vast body of knowledge relating to the observation and interpretation of natural phenomena and an astounding memory. A typical Polynesian navigator had a demand recall of up to two hundred different star positions as they would rise or set at any given time of the year, effectively giving him a star compass ...

LASHING Slammed by forces reaching thousands of pounds per square inch, simple vegetable fiber lashings routinely absorbed and dissipated bursts of torque that could rip steel. The Polynesian understood only too well the importance of lashing to a canoe’s survival. In Hawaiian waters, any form of rigid, non-flexible attachment would see a single or a double canoe slowly but methodically dismembered. Soft, pliable and rugged vegetable fiber lashing, especially when wet, very firmly binds a canoe and its outrigger assembly or two hulls, while simultaneously allowing for reasonable lateral and see-saw movement.

The coconut tree, often called the tree of life and widely regarded as the single most utilitarian plant known to man, usually furnished the lashings on which the life of the canoe depended … One of coconut sennit’s many admirable qualities is that it is little affected by the ravages of sun and sea, unlike cotton, manila (a durable fiber from the Philippines) or other natural cordages ... Cordage for use in rigging a canoe was customarily a two- to five-strand flat weave of the highest grade … Sennit was a primary unit of barter in pre-contact Hawai‘i. Without it there would have been no canoe.

KAONA The canoe born of the land but living in the sea embodied much of the Hawaiian ethos. The single most important artifact in Hawaiian culture, the Hawaiian canoe was a nucleus, a continuum, a key to the culture. With no written language, the traditions and skills surrounding canoes and canoe building and handling were passed down by the spoken words, considered the highest form of cultural expression in Hawai‘i. A preeminent art form in its own right, the canoe gave rise to, was the subject of, or was prominently referred to in a number of oral traditions.

Inherent in all Hawaiian oral traditions is the use of kaona, the deeper, hidden meanings of words and phrases that exemplify the complexity of the Hawaiian language. Nona Beamer writes that “Only the composer knows the true intent of the words. Sometimes true meanings were deliberately obscured to protect those named in the chants. Meanings might be disguised symbolically, hidden by nature connotations or veiled references.” The canoe was at once a functional, spiritual, economic, social, political, mythical and historical interface between man, the environment, the gods, and the cosmos … One can see representative examples of its cultural symbolism in chants and prayers, proverbs and poetical sayings, metaphors, genealogies, mele and songs, riddles and the hula. ❀

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Macadamia nuts are a wonder food.

If only there were enough to go around.

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“Our macadamia nuts

Some say the oil in macadamia is even healthier than the finest olive oil.

(This page) The macadamia nut is at home in any course, including the watermelon-arugula salad from Joe’s Bar & Grill. (Opposite page) From blossom to hard shell, the mac nut is a miracle of nature.

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are the biggest and best in the world,” said Brett Scott Pafford, chef at Gannon’s in Wailea Resort. “They are such beautiful, buttery nuts with the absence of any bitterness.” By “our” he meant “Hawai‘i’s” mac nuts, contrasting them with the smaller, tougher ones grown in remote terrains and climates. In his mind, though, he was thinking of Hawai‘i Island, handsdown the commercial heartland of the Island crop. Pafford didn’t realize he could get them now grown on Maui.

Ironically, this island still grows sugar and still provides world-class pineapple out of Hāli‘imaile. But even with patches here and there, we’ve never quite succeeded with macs. For example, it is widely known that Jim Nabors, entertainer and former television star, has a macadamia grove out in Hāna.

The Cessna pilots all know it. As they come in from Kahului Airport and drop to the Hāna airstrip, they can see the dark shaggy canopies of the “Naborly” orchard. They report to the tower: “We’re at 300 feet right above Gomer’s Pile.”

But a patch is not agribusiness. So far, Maui has experienced only one commercial-scale venture in macadamias.

You can see the trees, 1,500 acres of them, when you drive the beach road from Central Maui toward windward West Maui. Thick and unkempt, the orchard fills mauka (toward the mountain) land where Waiehu meets Waihe‘e, an area prized by pre-contact planters for its rich soil and access to stream water. This is where Wailuku Agribusiness, a sugar company wishing to diversify, made a serious commitment to Maui macadamia farming circa 1980.

“The venture failed magnificently,“ says Avery Chumbley, who was then president of Wailuku Ag. Part of the trouble was this area’s sloping dirt ground, ground that is not flat and cinder-like as on Hawai‘i Island. “That made it difficult to maintain a workable orchard floor,” says Chumbley.

“Then there was the exposure to salt air. Those trees took a beating year after year.” Shipping costs were debilitating.

According to Hawai‘i Business magazine, the orchard made its first profit in 1994, over a decade after its planting.

Then historic El Niño droughts hit the Islands in ’97 and ’98. “We mothballed the operation on December 30, 1999.”

The company later liquidated.

But the trees still live. They may not be as productive as one might have hoped. But what they continue to produce is one of the best food items you can find. Perhaps a changed business model, something on a less ambitious, more locally sustainable scale, could provide access to a little-known island resource—Maui macadamia nuts.

Something on that scale seems to be happening right now, giving hope to those who know and love this nut. This is not front-page news, but is rather a kind of whispered, over-the-backyard-fence talk. A growing number of Maui chefs are discovering that they can get their hands on actual Maui-grown mac nuts from these Waihe‘e orchards.

Those interested in this resource need to know two things about macadamia nuts. One: They are amazingly good for you and should be a daily staple of every home pantry. Two: They are so difficult to harvest that they’ll likely always be hard to find.

First, nutrition: Don’t be deceived by the mac nut’s taste, which is pure cream diluted with tree-bud essence. And when the nut is roasted, the taste becomes less shy and starts to hang around in the edges of your mouth, sweetening.

Then you want to eat a lot of them. Then maybe you catch yourself, thinking you shouldn’t.

But you should. You can’t possibly have too many of them in your diet. Although they are 80 percent fat, they will never make you fat. They are loaded with fatty acids that are “monounsaturated.” Instead of clogging arteries and raising cholesterol levels, macadamia fats pass without harm into the digestive system and release concentrated energy.

Some say the oil in macadamia is even healthier than the finest olive oil. Macs fit seamlessly into the Mediterranean diet.

They nutritionally replace artery-clogging lipids such as those derived from chicken, lard or drive-through sandwiches. Of course, marketed macs might be coated with salt, chocolate or Spam seasoning (whatever that is), but the nut in its natural form is as healthful as a farm-fresh salad in Tuscany.

The authority for making this claim is University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Professor Harry Ako, chair of the Department of Molecular Biosciences and Bioengineering. “Mac nuts are very healthful items to eat,” he said, “mostly because of what they don’t do. They don’t cause cancer. They don’t cause arteriosclerosis. They lower your cholesterol.”

One study from University of Hawai‘i in 2007 states that “short-term macadamia nut consumption modifies favorably the biomarkers of oxidative stress, thrombosis and inflammation, the risk factors for coronary artery disease, despite an increase in dietary fat intake.” It concludes that “regular consumption of macadamia nuts may play a role in the prevention of coronary artery disease.”

Dr. Ako has put a lot of study into macadamia oil, which is “super clean” with a very high smoke point, and which stays fresh without refrigeration for almost two years.

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He also advised a now-successful start-up called Oils of Aloha, which produces mac oil as a safe, stable component of cosmetics.

A good nut, however, is hard to find. Mac nuts form on hanging floral tassels, each flower capable of producing a single Ping-Pong-ball-sized fruit. This fruit consists of a leathery green outer husk that splits open like a clam to reveal a shiny caramel-brown shell within. It’s easy to shuck the husk, but that is where the easiness stops.

To get to the kernel, you have to crack that perfectly spherical shell. But the shell is like solid Kevlar. Using a standard kitchen nutcracker, you feel as if you’re trying to crack a pool ball. You can run over a mac nut with a semi-hauler, and it won’t break.

People who crack macs at home tend to use the karate “hammer blow” technique, an arcane term applying to the dynamics of force. You let the nut dry for a couple of weeks until the kernel can be heard knocking around inside. Then you put the nut on a block and, with a metal mallet, swing as

though you intend to drive a 16-penny nail with a single blow.

Your target is a slick, hard sphere, so if your aim is slightly off, zing! Expect a miniature cannonball. But hit it square, and the shell cracks into curved pieces of chocolatecolored shrapnel thicker and harder than anything you’ve ever thought a plant could produce.

A new company called Waihe‘e Valley Plantations is now harvesting a large area of the Maui orchard, drying and cracking the crop via off-the-grid technology. (The company is ready to expand into fruit trees and aquaponics.) Spokesperson Shannon Christensen says that WVP’s farm methods reduce the labor force, and its on-site processing eliminates shipping costs.

New Maui entrepreneur Cynthia Dystra is using WVP’s product and a community-funded commercial kitchen in Wailuku to create her product—roasted Maui macadamia nuts under the label Hawaiian Heritage Farms. We found them at the Native Intelligence store in Wailuku and immediately realized that they were crunchier, tastier and fresher than any others we had ever tasted. ❀

Ode to the Mac Nut Having discovered the health benefits of eating mac nuts, you’ll likely want to eliminate all other foods (who needs them?) from your diet. However, if you’re still hung up on dietary diversity, here is a sampling of macadamia nut options in Wailea.

For a gluten-free side dish that’s light on the carbohydrates, simply mix quinoa with toasted pieces of macadamia nuts. That’s what DUO (Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea) does, using black and white quinoas enlivened with preserved lemon, fresh herbs and a little olive oil. Tommy Bahama’s kitchen uses mac nuts to encrust cheese from Maui’s Surfing Goat Dairy and serves that with mango salsa and a sweet soy glaze.

Gannon’s does something

similar (with the addition of pistachios) and serves that with a frisée-watercressbaby beet salad built on top of a mac nut pesto.

In fact, any salad gets a creamy effect from macs, softening the bite of lemon or vinegar. Consider chef Ben Henion’s invention at Joe’s—a Hawaiian salad with a Southwestern flavor.

He pairs watermelon and spicy wild arugula; then moderates the flavor with mac nuts (mallet-crushed), Kula strawberries and manchego cheese, dressed with honey-guajillo (a type of chili) vinaigrette. Ben likes to purée roasted mac nuts, mix with Moloka‘i sea salt, stash for a few days, then serve as-is for a universally appealing garnish.

Maui entrées, especially fish, are famously dressed

with macadamia. Tylun Pang, executive chef at The Fairmont Kea Lani, Maui and Kō Restaurant and perennial winner of culinary honors, has diners using pure macadamia oil to sear their seasoned fish on a volcano-hot stone. Gannon’s serves a mac-crusted pork fritter with grilled pineapple.

Gannon’s executive chef Brett Scott Pafford says the macadamia adds “complexity on the textural level.” He uses them to “cut” other nuts in order to “set the balance” of flavors.

Desserts? Consider Kō’s heavily cacao-bean-based chocolate baked custard, built on a praline crust of Maui mac nuts. Just one bite and you’ll know: This nut deserves top billing in the kitchen, especially when it’s grown on Maui.

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IT’S NOT JUST THE GAME.

IT’S MAUI

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he first thing Tennis Hall of Famer Tracy Austin mentions about the Wailea Fantasy Tennis Camp is the beauty of Maui. The Wailea air seems to engulf her.

(This page) Wailea’s tennis courts. (Opposite) Cathy Nicoloff.

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“First, you have Maui—that’s absolutely gorgeous,” Austin told me before a recent trip to the Valley Isle. “You know you are in Hawai‘i with the tropical air, the different smells in Hawai‘i. You just feel relaxed right away.”

When the unmatched camp takes place in November of 2014, Austin will have Hall of Fame company. Lindsay Davenport was inducted into the Tennis Hall of Fame in July.

“Year eight of the event, and it’s evolved into an amazing group of pros,” says camp co-founder and director Cathy Nicoloff. “Now that people know about it—it has been out in the media, it has been in Tennis Magazine, it’s been in Inside Tennis—we have editors of magazines approaching us, and that has never happened before.”

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If camps were ranked, the Wailea Fantasy Tennis Camp would be No. 1.

Davenport and Austin, each former world No. 1-ranked players, both work for The Tennis Channel as analysts, giving the camp even more credibility and exposure.

The Hall of Famers, who won a combined five Grand Slam singles titles, will be joined by former French Open champion Michael Chang, four-time Association of Tennis Professionals tournament winner Taylor Dent and renowned coaches Tom Gullikson and Mike Sell, both former world-ranked players.

All this, said Nicoloff, is helping to dramatically increase worldwide interest in the sport. “It is really an amazing thing,” she said.

Patrick Ekstrand, Wailea’s director of tennis, said the facility has undergone a recent face-lift that fits right in with the camp.

“We have retooled the pro shop, we have upgraded, we have done some major landscaping projects to make sure it looks nice,” Ekstrand said. “We have

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quadrupled our membership. Things are moving again at the club … We want this to be the place that people want to join, and where people want to play.”

Ekstrand has played and worked in tennis around the world, but nowhere quite like Wailea.

“I am originally from Sweden,” Ekstrand said. “I played college tennis in El Paso, Texas. I lived and taught in Texas for 20 years, up until 2008, and now I’m here. This is one of the premier places for a tennis club that I have been to.”

If camps were ranked, the Wailea Fantasy Tennis Camp would be No. 1.

Nicoloff says there is no other camp in the world that can equal the caliber of the Tennis Camp’s offerings. “We checked it out, we did the research, and no one else has this kind of talent pool,” she noted.

“Wailea deserves that. It is an incredible destination. It needs to be on the map as far as tennis and golf go, and this does it. I think Wailea is just an extraordinary place to be. These pros love coming here.”

Chang, who won the French Open in 1989 at the age of 17, was added to the group in 2013. Back for his second appearance, he replaced Davenport last year when she became pregnant. The thought of recruiting Chang came to Nicoloff when she was watching the U.S. Open last year.

“Lindsay called and told me, ‘I’m pregnant with (child) number 4,’” Nicoloff continued. “I was literally watching television, and Tracy Austin was interviewing Michael Chang. I’m watching and I go, ‘Ah, Michael Chang.’”

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(Left to right): Cathy Nicoloff, Fantasy Camp co-founder and director; a guest receives a lesson from a camp instructor; Tennis Hall of Famer Tracy Austin.

BACK TO THE FUTURE The Wailea Blue Golf Course has gone back to its roots.

The course recently moved its clubhouse location to its

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we have wanted to do for many

170 electric carts on the Gold

years,” said Barry Helle, general

and Emerald courses has been

manager of the Wailea Blue.

recently equipped with upgrad-

“We have always wanted to

ed GPS yardage units designed

move the Blue back to its origi-

to enhance playing experience

nal location, right in the heart of

and safety.

Featuring graphically ad-

location for the exposure of

vanced touch screens, the new

this great facility. This is where

Visage system enables players

everything started.”

to get yardages for fairways, bunkers, hole locations and the

nally known as the Wailea Golf

front or back of greens; send

Course—predates all other

instant messages to the pro

buildings in the resort, having

shop; and see the cart ahead

opened as a nine-hole course

when playing a blind hole.

in October of 1971 and as an 18-

On select holes, players

hole course in February of 1972.

can view a digitally produced

“The Blue was the first thing

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“As far as the real estate and

Drive, next to Manoli’s Pizza.

The Blue Course—origi-

finishing hole. location, this is unbeatable,”

the resort. It’s just a much better

An early-morning game, above, and Wailea Blue, right.

No. 1; and No. 5 is now the

original spot on Wailea Ike “The move itself is something

Wailea’s Hall of Famers have a combined five Grand Slam singles titles.

What was hole No. 6 is now

“flyover” by pressing a button.

ever built in Wailea, before any

For groups, the Visage system

homes, any condos, any hotels,”

offers enhanced tournament

Helle said. “The creators of

capabilities.

Wailea knew they had to have

Additionally, the locker

something pretty special to put

rooms at the Gold & Emerald

what was then a very remote

Clubhouse have recently under-

destination on the map.”

gone a minor renovation.

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The camp has grown into a must-attend event on the Wailea calendar each year.

“It is a signature event,” Nicoloff said. “It’s kind of like the [Maui] film festival—people associate it with Wailea. There’s a buzz out there now, and the pros are supporting the buzz. Lindsay Davenport was here in February for a convention and she asked me, ‘What can I do for you, what do you need me to do?’”

The Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea is the hotel partner for the camp and has followed Nicoloff’s plan to add a yoga camp and a biking camp. A golf camp could follow.

Davenport’s July induction into the Hall of Fame in Newport, R.I., fit perfectly into the vision for the camp.

“She’s going to be on the cover of everything,” Nicoloff said. “It’s well deserved, and we are very, very excited to be there with her.”

The camp has daily rates for campers who don’t want to attend the entire five-day run.

“You’re going to see all the pros, and it’s crazy that you get that opportunity,” Nicoloff said. “If it’s on your bucket list, it’s a must do. We had an older lady last year. She saved her money, this was on her bucket list, and she wanted to do it. She just lit this place up, she was so happy to be here.” ❀

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in depressions they carved in lava or rock, or in shallow ponds by the ocean.

Their sea salt, pa‘akai, was an article of similar value to the fish hooks and artifacts they so arduously crafted.

Maui county, which includes Moloka‘i and Lāna‘i, has its own array of multihued Hawaiian salts, available in different varieties and in limited supply. Black salts may be treated with charcoal, a pink salt with the mineral-rich clay called‘alaea and even a green salt treated with bamboo leaf and other extracts. In Wailea restaurants and spas, Maui and other Hawaiian salts are touted on menus as noteworthy and a source of pride.

But for many chefs, the ne plus ultra of Hawaiian salt comes from west Kaua‘i’s Hanapēpē, where Hawaiian families have tended salt ponds for generations, gathering some of the finest sea salt known. It’s flaky rather than powdery and ranges in color from the palest of pink to darker shades of salmon. The salt cannot be sold, only given, which adds to its cachet. Even Captain James Cook, reports Kurlansky, commented on the excellence of Kaua‘i salt in the late 18th century. ❀

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So says Mark Kurlansky in his definitive book, “Salt: A World History.” So important is this cherished substance that he relates it to the origins of agriculture, sexual desire, the American Revolution, the domestication of animals, the independence movement of India, Egyptian mummification, the invention of gunpowder, the establishment of cities and trade routes, and countless events large and small.

Fortunately for us, Hawai‘i has a prominent place in the global salt hierarchy. How could we not? We are surrounded by ocean, our islands bathed in salt air. The tradewinds that sweep in from the northeast have come a long way to reach us, over briny water all the way. And, for culinary and ceremonial purposes, the ingenious Hawaiians have a rich history of making and harvesting salt from evaporated sea water

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when beaches, top-drawer amenities and consummate sunsets are added to the mix, the result is hard to beat. At Wailea Resort, these key elements are of a standard rarely seen within a single community. On 1,500 acres of Maui’s sunniest shore, basking in weather averaging 82 degrees, a community of vacation rentals, town homes, villas and condos thrives along a coastline of five white-sand beaches. Wherever you are staying, shops, spas and restaurants are within minutes of your front door.

Sports enthusiasts select from three 18-hole championship golf courses, the Emerald, Gold and Wailea Blue. Tennis players find the Wailea Tennis Club to be the perfect complement to a vacation at Wailea Resort. Watersports—swimming, snorkeling, shore-diving, kayaking, stand-up paddling and others—are plentiful year-round at the edge of the bathtub-warm Pacific Ocean.

Wedding groups, honeymooners, multigenerational families and single travelers find they’re equally at home on their Wailea getaway. And it’s not just the luxury and amenities. Wailea’s layout is spirited and thoughtful, highlighting the best features of the South Shore. With all these elements working together, Wailea is tailormade for peace and play.

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In the 1,500-acre Wailea Resort, residents are surrounded by opportunities for health and wellness, both seen and unseen. Wailea’s amenities—restaurants and shops—are only part of the lifestyle equation. Other factors contribute: tranquil surroundings, clean air, world-class golf and tennis, all cradled by an ocean breeze where Haleakalā meets the ocean.

Indoors and outdoors, the Wailea residential community lives in a health club without walls. On this leg of the South Shore, the north-south Coastal Walk, following five magnificent white-sand beaches, is a mile-and-a-half (three miles round trip) of aerobic, life-enhancing pleasure. Kayakers, paddlers, swimmers and

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snorkelers take to the ocean in their backyard, while familiar faces greet each other from sunrise to sunset on the path, the ocean at their fingertips.

Healthy dining is just around the corner in Wailea’s many superb restaurants, with the ocean always in view. With private pools and workout rooms in their homes, some residents design their own paths to wellness, privately or outdoors.

Racquet lovers find aerobic workouts at Maui’s largest resort tennis facility, while golfers challenge the fairways on three legendary courses.

After a day outdoors, nothing beats a spa. And Wailea’s spas are acclaimed the world over. Ranging from grand to intimate, the spas offer programs and facilities for yoga, tai chi, aerobics, nutrition and the full range of options. Beauty treatments and massage therapies constantly win awards as they celebrate traditions from around the world.

Whether it’s a 5,000-square-foot residence with a million-dollar view or a 900square-foot condo with the same extraordinary vista, there are 360-degree views of ocean, mountains and gardens. They whisper a gentle message: There is no better place on Earth to live well and be well. ❀

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ET'S FACE IT: Shopping can be great therapy. A new season approaches, it’s your birthday or anniversary, or you’re simply on vacation. At The Shops at Wailea, you don’t even need a reason. With its relaxed, fashionable boutiques and sophisticated restaurants, the open-air, two-story center redefines retail. Located within minutes of the surrounding hotels and resorts, between Grand Wailea and Wailea Beach Marriott Resort & Spa, more than 70 shops, restaurants and galleries make up the shopping gem of Wailea Resort. Parking, on the north and south sides, is generous, convenient and close.

Global high-fashion giants mingle with casual, family-owned shops, taking you from the beach to an elegant evening in one seamless sweep. Islandoriented retailers provide the practical sundries needed for the beach, picnic and villa, and the

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tropical-coastal ambience adds to the dynamic mix.

You can have a manicure on the spot, shop for celebrity art, pamper yourself with a new wardrobe or tuck into a freshly baked waffle cone.

The dining options are limitless: sushi, pasta, steak, ice cream, snacks, designer coffee and long tropical happy hours. It’s a cordial, spirited mood, and there are benches for lingering in the sunkissed atrium area.

When dining, shopping, art, crafts and the spirit of leisure unite in a single premium destination, it’s called the art of gracious living.

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The Gateway to Unique Finds Where artisanal boutiques abound

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S WAILEA RESORT GROWS, new features and pleasures continue to emerge. One of them is Wailea Gateway Center, one of the newer developments in South Maui. Slightly mauka (toward the mountain) from the shoreline on the flanks of Haleakalā, the Gateway is distinguished by its tile roofs and Mediterranean architecture, and by its superb location and view. Peek seaward from one of the boutiques and you’ll glimpse the ocean and the West Maui Mountains; look mauka and you’ll witness the massiveness of Haleakalā, the defining geological feature of the island.

The Gateway is a Wailea pivot point, conveniently serving the retail and dining needs of the Wailea community while serving as a gateway to points beyond.

The center’s proximity to Wailea’s hotels and residences is both a convenience and a luxury. Carefully selected boutiques and specialty shops fill a multitude of retail and dining needs: Rare wines and gourmet items are a boon for homeowners and guests with a penchant for entertaining, as well as those in search of

epicurean gifts and treasures. Specialty boutiques and services are tailor-made for the resort lifestyle, adding an extra layer of convenience.

The two-story Gateway offers everything from wines to clothing, coffee and pastries, a day spa, artisanal chocolates and beach wear. Adding to these lifestyle enhancements are diverse dining choices: pizza and sandwiches, Greek and Mediterranean fare and Hawai‘i Regional Cuisine. Take-out foods for those on the move and farm-to-table dining at a Wailea hotspot are available from morning into the after-dinner hours. For those seeking a new home or adventures on the high seas, real estate professionals and sailing adventures are also located in the center.

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Specialty boutiques and services are tailor-made for the resort lifestyle.

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This recently opened 9,000-square-foot spa includes a boutique with Jane Iredale mineral-based cosmetics, OPI nail polish and both Ala Lani and Kerstin Florian skincare, including Florian’s signature caviar-based product line. A fine selection of locally made jewelry, beauty cases, sarongs and beauty products complements the services.

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Prepared takeaway foods include pastries, paninis, pizza, gelato and locally crafted beverages, all in a 24hour convenience store with style.

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Exotic and elegant Na Hoku jewelry is inspired by the beauty and traditions of the Islands. Many of the intricately crafted pieces are enriched with Tahitian, Akoya or freshwater pearls.

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A one-stop shop for fun lovers, the shop offers snacks and sundries, beach and sports apparel, accessories, souvenirs and distinctive gifts.

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It’s a breeze to put your best foot forward with this resort-savvy selection of men’s and women’s footwear, handbags, accessories and color casuals.

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shop. Treatment lines and beauty products uphold the East-West theme.

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Tennis enthusiasts will find fine sports apparel, equipment, shoes and supplies at this full-service pro shop. It’s the best place in Wailea to stock up on athletic gear and sportswear by respected names, such as Adidas, Nike and more.

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