Honokohau Falls Maui Ceramic Art Tile
— — the long white the road can't reach.
Not only on a wall.
“The tallest waterfall in Maui, threading through a valley with no road and no trail. Honokōhau drops about a thousand feet in tiers, deep in the West Maui Mountains, fed by rain on Puʻu Kukui, one of the wettest summits on earth. Helicopters slip into the bowl, hover, leave. The wind in the valley carries the sound a long way. From the bay below, the falls are out of sight; the cliff above them holds the cloud most days.
Honokohau Falls Maui Ceramic Art Tile, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
Each tile ships in a kraft box, tied with cream ribbon, with a handwritten note from the studio if you'd like to add one.
Three or five different vistas, hung together — a chapter of places you've been, or want to go.
The place, in three passes.
Honokōhau Falls is the tallest waterfall on Maui, in the West Maui Mountains, dropping about 1,119 ft (341 m) in tiers into Honokōhau Valley. The valley sits within the Puʻu Kukui Watershed Preserve, a private nature reserve stewarded by Maui Land & Pineapple Company. The falls are not reachable by trail; the valley has no public road and no maintained path. Most people who see them are passengers on a helicopter tour out of Kahului Airport. The stream that begins under the falls runs north and meets the sea at Honokōhau Bay, on the rugged northwestern coast of the island.
The falls drop in tiers down a sheer face of basalt and a near-vertical jungle wall. The water comes from rainfall on Puʻu Kukui, the 5,788-ft summit just south of the valley, which averages roughly 386 inches of rain per year, ranking among the wettest places on earth. The stream is small in volume but the height does the work. After a heavy storm the falls double in mass and the spray reaches the rim of the valley. In the dry summer months the upper tier can thin to a near-veil. The water is cold by the time it reaches the bottom.
There is no trail. No road approaches the falls. The valley is privately stewarded by the Puʻu Kukui Watershed Preserve, and overland access is closed to the public to protect the watershed. Air tours from Kahului Airport, about 50 minutes round-trip, are the only practical way to see the falls; flights run through the year but are weather-gated and most reliable on dry winter mornings before the cloud builds on the West Maui ridges. A few operators bank into the valley low and slow. Photographs from the ground exist mostly from kayak views of Honokōhau Bay, miles from the falls themselves.