Welcome To My Personal Gallery :)
Aloha :)
welcome to a mixture of things I enjoy. Kauai landscapes, night shots, and so much more. Thank you for getting this far and I hope you enjoy these images and they can bring a smile to your face like it does mine. Mahalo
Welcome to the wettest place on Earth
*2021
Mount Waialeale (located in Kokee) means “Rippling Water” the island’s highest peak, Waialeale is located at the southeastern edge that is now a plateau called Alakai Swamp. Always surrounded in clouds, Waialeale is one of the world’s wettest spots, averaging some 450 inches of rainfall annually.
*Because of all the rain, you will always see rainbows. It's not called the rainbow state for nothing. My advice never not go out and explore or drive around because it will stop raining eventually; unless its a rain storm then I take it back haha!
Spouting Horn: Poipu, Kauai
*2015
Legend of Spouting Horn: Hawaiian legend says that a very large lizard or "mo'o" guarded this coast and ate fishermen and anybody else that got too close. Once when a brave man named Liko entered the water he was attacked by the mo'o. To get away, he swam under the lava shelf and escaped through the tunnel. The mo'o tried to follow but was too big and got trapped in the tunnel. His growling is the noise that you can hear today.
There used to be a much larger blowhole nearby that shot water up to 200 feet into the air. Unfortunately, the salt spray was determined to be destructive to nearby sugar cane fields so the opening of this hole was blasted away in the 1920's and it no longer spouts water into the air.
mOOn
*2015
As a child I was always told to look for the bunny in the moon, and to find the hidden traces of mermaids on the beach. I hope that when you look into the sky tonight, or the ocean around you that you find the magic too.v
Shipwrecks Beach (Keoneloa Bay; long sand) Poipu, Kauai
*Sunrise 2021
Did you know
- this beach was the first place the early Polynesians were assumed to have landed and settled. They have found some of the islands earliest heiaus, bones, and tools that were used by these early settlers.
Tunnel of Trees
There are many stories about how it came to be so I’ll share some with you now and allow you to chose which one to believe.
• some say Walter Duncan McBryde planted the 500 trees, leftover from landscaping his estate. Other believe the Knudsen family imported the trees from Australia and planted it to shade the roadway to Koloa
•some say the trees were planted to shelter the sugar cane wagons that traveled through that area. Some say it was a planted for a wind breaker for the workers and shade for them as well; maybe it was planted for both reasons?
• others say the trees were planted to migrate the drainage that caused damage to the road.
*just some fun additional facts; the tunnel of trees actually extended further inland
**trees were planted in 1911
Old Kōloa Sugar Mill
*2020
The Old Sugar Mill of Kōloa, is part of the historic Ladd & Company sugar plantation, and is located in Kōloa. Sugarcane had been grown in the Hawaiian Islands for hundreds of years, and Captain Cook observed small-plot sugarcane cultivation when he first landed on Kauai in 1778. Founded in 1835, the Ladd & Company sugar plantation was the first successful large-scale sugar manufacturing enterprise in the Hawaiian Islands. Because of the fertility of the soil and the temperate climate, growing conditions were ideal for sugarcane, and sugar manufacturing soon became one of the largest industries in the islands. The ruins of the second mill make up the Old Sugar Mill of Kōloa National Historic Landmark.
In 1841, Ladd & Company's Kōloa sugar plantation was the site of the first general strike by native laborers in the Hawaiian Islands. The workers were paid 12.5 cents a day and went on strike to demand an increase in pay to 25 cents a day. The Kōloa plantation management refused, stating that in addition to their base pay the workers were receiving housing, fish, and land for their taro patches as well as an exemption from paying taxes to the ali'i (native chiefs). The strike was broken within two weeks. This was the first of many such strikes that affected sugar plantations in the islands throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.
Sunsets That
Take Your
Breath Away
