From high cliffs near South Point, Pacific waters shimmered and oscillated slowly as if thinly tarnished quicksilver, as the setting sun illuminated high cirrus. Windswept and remote, sparsely populated yet fortunately accessible, this part of Hawaii Island retains its untamed and undeveloped character. Nothing but grassland, a few occupied and abandoned buildings, and isolated, weather-beaten scrub trees impede the persistent flow of tradewinds from the southeast shore to the west shore here near the southernmost point of all 50 states. I was the only person anywhere on this stretch of seashore, and was granted the blessing of this experience to call my own and hold in the moment and in memory. Yet God’s beauty is best when shared, hence this wide-angle photograph for all others to see.
9 SSW Discovery Harbor, HI (15 Sep 25) Looking W
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