Kalaupapa
Kalaupapa is a place. A stone leaf peninsula created between 230,000 to 300,000 years ago. Its former molten origin boiling deep from the belly of the undersea volcano, Pu'u'uao located underneath the island of Moloka'i--an island said to be of magic and sorcery.
Desert-red sediment covers the leeward side of the island. There is one main road that is sometimes unrecognizable when flying overhead, as gale-force winds can cover everything in a rouge tinge. Other ATV roads span the landscape in an isolated pattern, and houses speckle the island all the way down the sheer cliff faces that meet the ocean and the base of the pali that naturally makes Kalaupapa one of the most isolated places in Hawaii.
This is a place of deep suffering, deep survival, and deep perseverance. It is one of the most amazing places in the world.
I'd stopped discussing the places I've visited in recent years because they deserve sanctity. We all do, perhaps. Kalaupapa most certainly deserves that, and I believe that it will receive it forever. Kalaupapa is redemption and resilience. A beautiful place that tells many a story; the story of healing.
Desert-red sediment covers the leeward side of the island. There is one main road that is sometimes unrecognizable when flying overhead, as gale-force winds can cover everything in a rouge tinge. Other ATV roads span the landscape in an isolated pattern, and houses speckle the island all the way down the sheer cliff faces that meet the ocean and the base of the pali that naturally makes Kalaupapa one of the most isolated places in Hawaii.
This is a place of deep suffering, deep survival, and deep perseverance. It is one of the most amazing places in the world.
I'd stopped discussing the places I've visited in recent years because they deserve sanctity. We all do, perhaps. Kalaupapa most certainly deserves that, and I believe that it will receive it forever. Kalaupapa is redemption and resilience. A beautiful place that tells many a story; the story of healing.
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