Two Reasons I love my island home.

[maheanuu]

A couple of months ago I was working in the garden with my wife and the golden hour was approaching rapidly. The Clouds were low and extremely fluffy so I had an inkling that there would be a great sunset in the offing. I would say here that over 70% of the sunrises or sunsets are keepers. And this night was no exception.

I shot this about 10 meters from my workplace/bungalow on the lagoon. The large tree is a Purau or Hau in Hawaiian. This is still one of the most useful trees in the world. The Polynesians used to take the inner bark and make Tapa from it which was a cloth and the inner bark is still woven to use as rope used on boats still and the Wood on the older trees is very light but very fiberous and makes wonderful ribs, keels and bow stringers. The leaves are woven into mats and used to cover the hima'a, which is an outdoor above ground oven that we use at least once a week.
We still eat poi, and taro, and arrowroot and of course the uru, which is the fruit that Captain Bligh and Fletcher Christian had a mutiny happen over the collection of.

The 2nd shot was taken about 5 meters left of where I set up for the first shot and was taken about 2 weeks ago....

South Pacific Sunset


Rays of Hope

[Solly Mack]

1. Gorgeous!

I envy you that view.

[maheanuu]

2. Sorry for the duplicate

I was in a hurry apparently and selected the wrong photo in the first post above. I had already used that sunset in here and meant to use this one with the 5 man outrigger canoe as the first photo

Apo'o'iti Sunset with a different angle again.

[Mira]

3. Mindblowing. I know this is possible, because I have been fortunate enough

to see it with my eyes. But never have I been able to record it this well with my camera.

[alfredo]

4. Beautiful

[Elfin Yeti]

5. Ha, and I thought I lived in Paradise!

You beat me hands down! Thank you for the lovely photos!

[Mz Pip]

6. These are so beautiful

I have always wanted to visit the South Pacific. Thank you for bringing some of it here. Someday, I'll get there, but until then I'll enjoy your pictures. :-)

[elleng]

7. THANK YOU!

:hi:

[handmade34]

8. fine reasons to love

your home... peaceful and soul satisfying, I would think