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One of the Mules which will take you down the narrow Kalaupapa mountain trail on the island of Molokai
From 1866 to 1969, this peninsula hosted an isolation settlement to which Hawaiians with leprosy were banished. Leprosy was a progressive, incurable infectious disease until the advent of antibiotics, and a reliable regimen was not developed until the 1980s. A handful of the original deportees still remain.
The peninsula is isolated from the rest of the island by 3,000-foot sea cliffs; a foot trail (now closed by landslide) crosses the mountains, but most people and supplies arrived by boat. (There is now an airstrip as well.) Before the advent of Europeans, the peninsula supported 1,000 to 2,700 inhabitants, but it was depopulated by European diseases, leaving a village of only 140 by 1866.
The main island was formed by two main volcanoes; the cliffs came about when the north third of this island slid into the abyss. The new land was built by a late episode of vulcanism emanating from a third volcano in the center of the peninsula (its crater visible as a dark shadow here).
I used a neutral density filter so I could get a long exposure to smooth out the water. Hope you like it.
The dramatic cliffs (pali) of Moloka’s north side, as seen from the Kalaupapa Peninsula, on the road to Kalawao. One of my personal favorites. Featured in my photo essay “Hawaii.”
Molokai, taken from Napili, Maui. These three adjacent shots (and the near by sunsets in the photostream were all taken from the same location. It's amazing how much the light changes over the course of a day.
Located on Molokai's north-west shore, Pohakumauliuli Beach features two white-sand beach coves and a few large tide pools. The nearby large red-faced hill is very old, partially collapsed volcanic cinder cone called Pohaku Mauliuli, which means “black rock” in the Hawaiian language. Some red in the rocks are from the iron content of the lava. You can see many interesting ancient lava flows some looks like they are frozen in time from the interaction of molten lava and the ocean.
On the path to the Kalaupapa Overlook. Molokai, Hawaii.
Walking through a forest of pine trees whispering in the northeasterly trade winds was not at all one of the things I expected to find on this day's explorations of Molokai.
Every Hawaiian island is different and Molokai is no exception. With only 7,500 people it is the least populated, but has an incredible diversity of terrain and land. From pine forests on the north shore to scenes that are more reminiscent of Texas hill country along the south coast, it's a place of beauty. This landscape was shot in the northwest interior near Maunaloa.
Aerial shot of Molokai Sea Cliffs
Taken with Pentax ZX-5N and Sakar 28mm f2.8
Scanned with Konica Minolta DiMage 5400