Molokai

13-18 Dec 2024

We hopped over to Molokai for a weekend around Roger's birthday.  Hooked up with some friends to make chocolate and tour a flower farm plus dinner the next day.  Otherwise it was mostly enjoying and painting/sketching the views.

Heading out to board our plane	Row 2...	Honolulu	Mokauea Fishing Village	Honolulu
Leahi aka Diamond Head	China Walls to Makapu`u	Makapu`u and Manana (aka Rabbit Island)	cloud shadows	Abandoned tent camp on west end of Molokai
west Molokai	west Molokai	landing...	old building in Kaunakakai	back of old building in Kaunakakai
through the palms	Kalaiakamanu Hou Church	sunset	waiting to order dinner...
		sunrise	sunrise
		sunrise		sunrise
reflections	sunrise		view from open air kitchen	fermenting cacao beans
grinder used on fermened, roasted cacao beans	tasting dipped cookies and pretzels	preparing to use chocolate molds	topping off with white chocolate	green heliconia
long banana peduncle	bananas		ginger	ginger
ginger	more cacao pods		cacao	backlit
heliconia		Hibiscus ‘Japanese Lantern’ (Hibiscus schizopetalus)	touring the gardens	allamanda blanchetii ???
backlit	Elephant Ear Alocasia ???		coconuts	yellow ginger
orchid ???	lemons	blue ginger
used cacao pods		spiral ginger ???		Bismark palm
cacao pod	large ginger		ready to come out of the molds	finishing off a papaya
	ginger	talking with her hands...	talking with her hands...	variagated ginger
torch ginger	torch ginger		ginger bud	Ice Cream Bean Tree
gingers		red ginger	cacao pod	cacao pod
washing cut flowers	washing cut flowers		variagated shell ginger	sealing wax palms
washing cut flowers	big banana blossom	puakenikeni fruit	Halawa Bay	Halawa Stream
Halawa	Halawa Valley	road to Halawa		Mokuho Oniki and Kanaha Rock
		waiting for the moon to rise...	waiting for the moon to rise...
what blind curve?	evening clouds	waiting for the moon to rise...	sunset over Kumimi Beach	looking south...
the clouds move in...	highlight over Lanai	a sliver of moonlight	a sliver of moonlight	high clouds
highlight over Maui	meanwhile to the west...			sunrise
sunrise		Imamura's
	phallic rock	eucalyptus	swirled ironwood needle-like leaves	shelf fungus
Kalaupapa		Kalaupapa	paperbark eucalyptus	Roger's rendition
Roger's rendition			near Kamahu`ehu`e Fishpond	near Kamahu`ehu`e Fishpond
near Kamahu`ehu`e Fishpond	near Kamahu`ehu`e Fishpond	near Kamahu`ehu`e Fishpond	near Kamahu`ehu`e Fishpond	near Kamahu`ehu`e Fishpond
near Kamahu`ehu`e Fishpond	near Kamahu`ehu`e Fishpond	near Kamahu`ehu`e Fishpond	along the coast road
tropical almond tree		lots of plastic where the surf is higher...	the bottle house	east Molokai
sunset	sunset	sunset	sunset	glare
sunrise	setting moon	sunrise		Pu`u O Hoku Ranch store
hibiscus	Cook pines	Halawa Valley	Halawa Valley	wind swept trees
the former Ierusalem Hou Church	the former Ierusalem Hou Church steeple	the former Ierusalem Hou Church
Halawa Congregational church built 1852	Halawa Congregational church built 1852	Halawa Congregational church built 1852	Halawa Congregational church built 1852	Halawa Congregational church built 1852
Halawa Congregational church built 1852	Halawa Congregational church built 1852	Halawa Congregational church built 1852	Halawa Stream	Halawa Valley
Halawa Stream	Halawa Bay	Halawa Bay	throw net fisherman	painting Halawa Stream
Roger's setup	painting Halawa Bay	Roger's painting	nestled securely in a tree...	the road through Pu`u O Hoku Ranch
distant tree line
Lanai at sunset	sunset	sunset	sunset	sunset
sunset	dawn	dawn	setting moon
sunrise	Papohaku Beach Park	Papohaku Beach Park	Papohaku Beach	Papohaku Beach
			Papohaku Beach	sketching
east end of Oahu		big bird! probably wild turkey...	shadows
Olomana in the distance	"public beach access"	Molokai airport	central Molokai	north cliffs and Kalaupapa
north cliffs and Kalaupapa	Oahu	Oahu

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