Near the end of of Lahaina on Maui, boys play at the boat ramp beside the bedragged Mala Wharf, which still suffers damages incurred during 1992’s Hurricane Iniki. (Christopher Reynolds / Los Angeles Times)
Lahaina, once a whaling town on the west end of Maui, these days teems with restaurants, galleries, boutiques and T-shirt shops. Tourists gaze out to sea with eyes on the sunset. (Christopher Reynolds / Los Angeles Times)
A busy street on Lahaina marks the town’s bustling tourist trade. (Christopher Reynolds / Los Angeles Times)
The Old Lahaina Luau on Maui offers food, music and hula dancing performers on a seaside site. (Christopher Reynolds / Los Angeles Times)
The quiet shoreline near Maui’s Lahaina Jodo Mission Buddhist Cultural Park includes a beach well-suited to families. (Christopher Reynolds / Los Angeles Times)
The Lahaina Jodo Mission Buddhist Cultural Park on Maui, which includes a large Buddha, offers a contemplative spot. (Christopher Reynolds / Los Angeles Times)
Black Rock, a landmark neighboring the Sheraton Maui Resort in Kaanapali, Maui, is the site of a nightly torch-lighting and high dive at sunset. (Christopher Reynolds / Los Angeles Times)
The Kaanapali resort area, located on the west end of Maui near Lahaina, was born in the early 1960s. Its beachfront hotels and vacation-condo complexes include the Kaanapali Beach Club. (Christopher Reynolds / Los Angeles Times)
Palm trees and hammocks punctuate Maui’s Kaanapali Beach Resort, several miles north of Lahaina, which includes five hotels and six condo complexes and one upscale mall along three miles of beach. (Christopher Reynolds / Los Angeles Times)
Maui’s Aston Kaanapali Shores, a vacation condo resort, stands along the beach north of Lahaina. (Christopher Reynolds / Los Angeles Times)
