Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Molokai Now, and Then

The last time I was in Molokai was 1982, when I was stationed at Pearl.  That last visit was just an overnight trip with a few of my shipmates, Matt, Nevo and Joe, prior to departing on WestPac for six months.  It was a memorable overnight, and not just because we almost missed movement waiting for the plane which was supposed to take us back to Honolulu on the morning we were mustering to head out to sea for six months.

After reading a GoNomad.com piece titled Molokai: Hawaii’s Almost Empty Island, it appears that Molokai has not changed considerably since my last visit.  Still no traffic light in Kaunakakai, still not much night life, and still no real development.

Looking at the photos included as part of the article also seems to indicate that things have not changed considerably since my last visit, which I confirmed by digging out some of the photos I took and saved from other visits to Molokai prior to that night in 1982.  My old photos could be substituted for the author’s photos with nary a difference noted.

Here’s one photo that the author of the article should have considered getting a shot of in his story on Molokai, taken from the cliffs above Molokai’s leper colony, which rise 1700 feet above the ocean.  They really are quite spectacular.

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Molokai now, is not much different from then.

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Posted by John Venlet on 01/24 at 08:44 AM
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