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Our Lahaina logo carries Hawaiʻi's hibiscus over "1795," the year the islands were brought together as the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi. The hibiscus — the state flower — stands for the natural beauty and aloha of the islands, and the date marks the founding of the kingdom whose capital Lahaina became. Printed in a distressed black-and-white that reads like an old travel decal, it's island heritage in shorthand: Hawaiian, historic, and rooted in West Maui.
What's with Lahaina Noon? Twice a year, when the sun's path lines up directly over this latitude, it climbs to the exact center of the sky and — for a moment at midday — vertical objects cast almost no shadow at all. Hawaiians knew the moment as kau ka lā i ka lolo, "the sun resting on the brains," and today it's called Lahaina Noon. The name fits the town's bright, leeward shore: Lāhainā means "cruel" or "merciless sun," for the dry, sun-soaked western coast of Maui where the light is famously strong.
