The wharf serving the Kalaupapa peninsula on Molokai. The cliffs in the background are 1300 feet tall.

Unfortunately we couldn't see the tops of the cliffs because of the low rain clouds, but at least we got to see waterfalls!

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Halawa Valley, Moloka'i, Hawai'i

In the summer of 1976, after my Pleasant Hawaiian Holidays Oahu vacation with Charlene I made the decision not to return with the group. I flew to Moloka'i since I had been writing to a teacher on that island. She had told me to come for a visit any time. I never thought that I would, but . . . unplanned, the day before my departure for LAX I gave her a call . . . and the next day as the group was heading home I hopped a plane to Moloka'i.

That summer I hiked 4½ miles to the Moa'lua Falls, mostly barefoot because the flip flops were bothering me. I'd never do that today, but I was 25, carefree, only had flip flops, and didn't know that I was going on a 4½ mile hike.

I spent two wonderful weeks with a family in Kaunakakai, Moloka'i and had lots of new and exciting experiences.

Overflying the main Molokai airport in Kaunakakai.

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West coast of Moloka'i, HI. Didn't remove the window glare because I kinda like it.

Pseudognaphalium sandwicensium var. molokaiense (Enaena, puheu)

Habit at Moomomi, Molokai, Hawaii.

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Previously known as Gnaphalium sandwicensium var. molokaiense.

Looking towards Lanai

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Stone wall near Father Damien’s church at Kalawao, on the Kalaupapa Peninsula. Molokai, Hawaii.

Very clear view of Molokai from the grounds of The Royal Lahaina. It was very rare to see those upper peaks not covered by clouds.

This photo was published on the back cover of the novel (a Christian romance): Love Finds You in Lahaina, Hawaii

Pics taken in Molokai, HI with Kate Gardiner during January 2010 vacation.

Moloka'i

View On Black

Taken from the shore at Kalaupapa in Molokai, HI

View of the pali (cliffs) of Molokai’s north side from the Kalaupapa wharf.

Molokai Post 14 American Legion

Coffees of Hawaii Molokai Plantation

Cliffs on the Hawaiian island of Molokai. These cliffs separate the main part of the island from the Kalaupapa Peninsula. I found it ironic that such a beautiful site was also the site of a former leper colony.

Taken November 1993; scanned from slide.

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Coffees of Hawaii Molokai Plantation

Taken at the coconut grove on Molokai, Hawaii. This coconut grove located on the south shore of Molokai 1 ½ miles west of Kaunakakai was planted in the 1860's by King Kamehameha V. The King, nicknamed Kapuaiwa, selected this site because of the seven sacred ponds located here. He had 1,000 tall, royal coconut palm trees planted here to represent each warrior in his mighty army and to shade his sacred bathing pools of the ali'i (royalty). Of the reported ten acres of trees planted here, only a few hundred of these beautiful palms still stand. Entrance through the grove is forbidden due to the constant and real danger of falling coconuts.

Coffees of Hawaii Molokai Plantation

Molokai Post 14 American Legion

West Maui seen from Molokai

Molokai’s west end, as seen from the Mokulele Airlines flight starting its descent.

To urge visitors to "slow down"

I was pretty nervous walking under these things. It’s a long ways for a heavy round object to fall.

Pano of Molokai taken from Kapalua in Maui

As viewed from Maui

Self-timed camera sitting on a tree stump.

Coffees of Hawaii Molokai Plantation

A black sand beach on the north coast of Molokai taken during our flight in a rented Cessna 172 during our honeymoon in 2005.