Devry Green: Time now for snapshot from the exciting world of travel. In focus today Maui. The Hawaiian island of Maui has got a lot to offer including [?] for example
biking down Maui's Haleakala [?] has become a big hit. From the summit to sea level [?] feet in [?] miles.

Biking guide: It is considered longest bike ride in the world. It's [?]…. it contains all
the climatic ---- except for polar and [?] --- so you are a lot things all the way down.

Devry Green: No [?] of thrills out on the water either. Maui's Hookipa beach is the wind surfing [?] of the world.

Local surfer: Typically on Maui the wind is [?] in the morning – which is perfect for the [?] level sailors. And right around two, three o'clock, when the wind is strongest that's when you can see a lot of the [?] come out and show their stuff.

Devry Green: [?] tips for keeping your head above water, start with a big [?] and a small sail. Below the water, well if you've ever [?] on a tank, you know the attraction.

Female tourist 1: The fish are sooo blue. Very blue. Ummm large fish they [?] in size from about this big to this large.

Devry Green: Scuba diving was once considered extreme [?] travel, but today the US has over 3 million [?] scuba divers. Most resorts in Maui now offer [?]. For the best deal, consider a multi-day dive package. The waters off of Maui aren't just home to [?] fish. Hundreds of humpback whales migrate [?] miles to Maui from their summer home in the cold waters off [?]. This is where female humpbacks give birth to their young.

Female tourist 2: We watch a [?] come up to the surface, they'll look at us and watch us as much as we are watching them, and you [?] – who's watching who.

Devry Green: Most whaling trips leave from Lahiana. Once a whaling center, today much of the town is a national historical [?]. And new on the map is the Maui Ocean Center. It's the biggest [?] park in the South Pacific. Life size models and [?] displays show the humpbacks annual [?] half way around the world. Also on view, a state of the art [?] that brings you face to face with more than [?] species of deep-sea fish. Filled with [?] thousand gallons of water, it's the largest [?] of its kind in Hawaii.

Male tourist 1: It's really as if you are stepping right off the [?] of the beach and [?] walking right down into the underwater world. It truly becomes an underwater [?].

Devry Green: The center serves up close [?]s with prey and predators, sea turtles, stingrays and sharks. And as you travel through the reef [?]s you'll see living [?], tropical reef fish and the point at which the reef environment meets the deep ocean.
Apart from becoming familiar with [?] life, Maui also offers visitors other lessons, one in particular some may wish they had taken a little more [?]. Native Hawaiians see Haleakala as a holy place where spirits [?], like Pele, goddess of fire. Tourists see it somewhat differently, and often they are tempted to pick up a little [?].

Linda: Are you having bad luck, did you [?] take some [?] when you were visiting the Hawaiian Islands?

Devry Green: That's right. Bad luck [?] befalls those who take from Haleakala.

Local man: It [?]s the spirits and what happens is that, wherever the rock goes away from the Tour guide land, it creates a problem, the spirit creates a problem and it wants to come back.

Linda: To whom it may concern, please take this [?] and return it to Pele. Since having it back in Connecticut I have lost my son, business and wife.

Devry Green: Linda Mathes says the Maui National Bureau receives a [?] rocks and letters a week from people trying to get back in the good graces of the gods.

Linda: Someone paid about, probably $[?] to return this piece - of rock to us, and it probably came with a letter that said, “Please [?] to the volcano goddess for me.”

Devry Green: [?]? Maybe it is not the gods at all, how about bad karma –after all it's a federal [?] to remove anything from a National Park. With this snap shot from Maui, I'm Devry Green.[?]