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"Na Pali Epiphany"
Morning along the Na Pali Coast of Kauai is both difficult to capture
and magnificent to witness. You have to push the limits of your equipment
to find that minute sweet spot in the exposure that sets your imagination free.
"A Fingerprint of Fire, Fog, and Rain"
Where the Dramatic Edge of Kauai Washes Inexorably into the Pacific
Both the Big Island's Kohala/Hamakua and Kauai's Na Pali coasts are very
remote and spectacular shorelines. Here on the Na Pali, there are tiny valleys
that have insects that exist nowhere else in the world. In one of these canyons
there is a verdant valley floor only a few acres in size where there are male
fruit flies with tiny antlers. And yes, they butt heads on leaves just
like larger game animals establish their territory and mating rights. The
genetics of life on Earth is far more strange and magnificent than most of us
know.
"Na Pali Post Meridian"
This same formidable shore greeted those who first saw the far west of Kauai
Early Hawaiians found peace and sanctuary along this coast because it
was so remote. Today there are good roads all around the coast of Kauai
except the Na Pali coast, so a view like this can only be seen the same way
those first humans saw it, from the sea.
