Rising Tide Images
Carved Basalt
Dense orographic clouds shroud the Ko’olau mountains at the He’eia Stream headland. With a ridgeline elevation of 1,600 feet in this area, these intermittent waterfalls plunge hundreds of feet dissecting and carving the basalt of the windward pali. As it always does, water will eventually win, and the island will erode to a coral atoll.
From lofty orographic peaks,
A waterfall through rainforest leaps.
In tumbling, silvery, glistening mirth,
It recycles back to its ocean birth. -RW
Carved Basalt
Dense orographic clouds shroud the Ko’olau mountains at the He’eia Stream headland. With a ridgeline elevation of 1,600 feet in this area, these intermittent waterfalls plunge hundreds of feet dissecting and carving the basalt of the windward pali. As it always does, water will eventually win, and the island will erode to a coral atoll.
From lofty orographic peaks,
A waterfall through rainforest leaps.
In tumbling, silvery, glistening mirth,
It recycles back to its ocean birth. -RW