Word: maui
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most island visitors prefer Scotch or martinis. After soaping off the Coppertone, they generally settle for dinner and dreams. For the indefatigable, however, there is nightlife on Maui. There are waiting lines outside the Lost Horizon disco at the Wailea Beach Hotel; the Royal Lahaina's Foxy Lady packs in upper teenagers and the Tommy Dorsey set in equal numbers. The island's hottest spot is the Bluemax, in the town of Lahaina, where visiting Elton John and Linda Ronstadt have done their stuff off the cuff; the place is packed nightly in hopes that other drop...
...ships and China clippers, the clapboard community has been restored to a state of authentic tackiness. La haina boasts some 30 restaurants and about 260 stores whose offerings range from elegant scrimshaw and touristy puka-shell necklaces to T shirts with slogans like DON'T HASSLE THE HUMPBACKS, MAUI NO KA Ol (Maui is the best) and HERE TODAY GONE TO MAUI. On the town's bustling waterfront, tourists cram aboard the 50-ft. trimaran Trilogy for daylong sails, or the 65-ft. glass-bottomed boat Coral...
...foundation has also restored to Victorian primness the home of the Baldwin family, pioneer missionaries and landowners of whom the natives still say: "They came here to do good and did right well." Near by, Baldwin ghosts may note with horror, aging flower children -"bamboo tourists"-dicker for Maui Wowie. Thanks to the tourist boom, Lahaina today has three times as many permanent inhabitants (some 10,000) as it did in the 1840s, whaling's heyday...
...least among the island's beauties are its beauties. Maui boasts some of the world's most exotic women. Many flashing-eyed, sinuous wahines are hapa-haole, meaning half Caucasian; others are apparently products of every conceivable ethnic mix. Of the larger islands Maui has the state's biggest proportion of Polynesian-descended Hawaiians and part...
Pidgin for a mouth-watering dish is brok'd'moutt (it breaks the mouth). While Hawaiian cuisine may never break Michelin's mouth, Maui offers some distinctive delicacies: ophis (yellow limpets) eaten raw, chicken stewed in coconut milk, kuolo (coconut and sweet-potato pudding) and macadamia-nut pie, aloha cousin to Southern pecan pie; also, almost all the island's fish, notably mahimahi (dolphin), ahi (tuna), ono (wahoo), opakapaka (pink snapper), akule (mackerel) and aquaculturally raised catfish, all of which are often served in a papillote of ti leaves; and all the tropical fruits like papaya...