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Fotoeins Friday: RTW10, two

By fotoeins on 7 January 2022

10 years ago, I began an around-the-world (RTW) journey lasting 389 consecutive days, from 24 December 2011 to 15 January 2013 inclusive.

21 Jan 2012.

I’m back on the Big Island. My 5 years working at Gemini Observatory South in Chile offered opportunities to travel and meet with my colleagues at Gemini North in Hilo. At the initial stages of my RTW, my return to the Big Island includes a more complete drive around the island’s outer edge.

We see the road sign, and turn off from the highway for the short drive down to the park by the shoreline. This is Laupāhoehoe, an idyllic spot with a small beach, some spots for fishing, and a place simply to enjoy the tropical Pacific view. Once, the town here had up to 2000 people farming and harvesting taro root and sugar cane crops during the first-part of the 20th-century, but the trauma of the 1946 tsunami and the steep decline in profit from sugar-making changed the town forever.

Now, it’s the frequent crash of ocean waves on the shore, interrupted by the squeals and laughter of children. Ghosts have never sounded better.

I made the image above on 21 Jan 2012 with a Canon EOS450D (Rebel XSi) and the following settings: 1/250-sec, f/8, ISO100, and 53mm focal length (85mm full-frame equivalent). This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com as https://wp.me/p1BIdT-lwT.