A picture of a boat at Kaanapali beach. Kaanapali is the first resort community on Maui, built by plantation owners. Out of all the places on Maui, they picked this beach as the most beautiful (and appropriate for development). At this beach, you can also see black rock, which is where traditionally souls hop off into the next life. If noone was there to greet them on the other side, the soul would end up hanging around black rock and causing mischief. This is why when you snorkel at black rock (one of the best places to snorkel on Maui), you never take anything with you. At black rock, the hilton does a torch lighting and cliff-diving presentation every day at sunset, which is nice but probably not something I would wait around for again.