I’ve never been warned that I would die so many times in a single week.

Here’s the text of a typical warning sign I saw during a trip to Maui.

Warning Stay Clear of Blowhole. You can be sucked in and killed. It’s Not a WaterPark.

In this case it was hand-scrawled on a weathered green piece of plywood up the hill from the Nakalele Blowhole. To get to the blowhole, visitors clamber over boulders the size of a car, down a path made slick and muddy by the light rain that was falling, along the edge... More