Shadow Thus

A L O H A !

" When the mind is pure, 

joy follows  

like a shadow

 that never leaves.” 

                Buddha

Linking to 

Shadow Shot Sunday 2

Thanks!

                 cloudia

Point Panic - Kaka`ako Waterfront Park

A  L  O  H  A !

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" Travel and change 

of place impart 

new vigour to

 the mind. "

                   Seneca

This is the entrance to  

Kaka`ako Waterfront Park 

[and Point Panic surf spot]

from the parking area.

Not much to see but 

palm-topped hills, 

because this was a landfill 

since the 1940's

and heavy "fill" 

slumbers within those mounds.

I came here with friends 

before the park was imagined

to drink and play the fool in a dirty,

out of the way area with

a sea view.

You could drive to the top

of the heap then. . . 

 "I can't go back to 

yesterday because 

I was a 

different person 

then. " Lewis Carroll

'The park has changed too.'

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 A path winds among the hills,

 but I prefer climbing to the top

where this pipe vents 

the buried landfill spirits.

[But keeps my secrets]

This is a spacious place 

in which to be alone

 with your thoughts - 

or disreputable companions.

But Honolulu is

 all around and 

very close.

To the west are the 

Waianae Mountains rising 

above the flat runways of 

the airport / air force base. 

The Aloha Tower 

[Opened September 11, 1926] 

presides over the 

docks and shipping area

as it has since Territorial Days

Link when it was 

the tallest building

in Hawaii. 

They still run the

 port/harbor from there.

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" Silence is 

sometimes 

the best answer. " 

                          The Dalai Lama

To the morning east

 one sees a tiny 

Diamond Head

faded as old denim by 

the sun rising behind.

It's gonna be 

another nice day

in 'paradise.'

 Every park must 

have guardians -

Linking to 
Saturday Critters

- Luckily it seems that

the guardians have friends

of their own.

No surfers today, but

 there is something

for almost everyone here. 

Nature, Sea & Sky

most of all.

 Plus space to 

breathe it all in.

The garbage is gone, or 

at least sleeping below the hills

that look out to sea,

the blue pacific, beyond

the reef.

I imagine

that I can see 

YOU waving!

Aloha, Friends;

Your visit

is the sun on my shore.

                       Fondly, cloudia

Linking to 
Sunlit Sunday

Read about the park, and see panoramic pictures: Kaka`ako Waterfront Park