Man I love this tree, it makes me feel so at home and welcomed.

You don’t take DM’s?

ISO 800 on a sunny day? At first I thought maybe you were concerned about motion blur, but hard to imagine that being an issue with a 20mm lens.

I watched a video on it on YouTube. It was about the origin/formation of the Hawaiian islands and it was very cool. Edit: I think this is it. Molokai is in the last 1/3 but the whole thing is good! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sQu8A9repo8

The coast redwoods (sequoia sempervirens) make me think of Rivendell. The giant sequoia, like in this photo (sequoia giganteum) are like the Ents.

There's another sequoia with a really fascinating story. We have them in San Francisco in the botanical garden. Dawn redwoods, if you are interested in this very beautiful deciduous "extinct" redwood:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasequoia_glyptostroboides

Hahaha

One time, I took a ferry there from Lahaina and camped up in the mountains.

I took a mule ride down these sea cliffs to Kalaupapa, which is actually a literal leper colony. Leprosy, or Hansen’s disease, has been cured as of like the 1950s, so at the time I went there, there was only like 7 people left who had suffered from the disease and they were like 70 or 80 years old. That alone is an interesting story, but I’m kinda going off on a tangent, it’s an interesting story should you ever want to go down an internet rabbit hole.

People in Molokai were generally friendly, but even a decade after the fact, there was still “Save La’au” signs and anti-Sheraton propaganda. They were overgrown in the vegetation, and sun faded over time, but you could feel the anti-establishment sentiment in the air. There was not much to do, in a sense of commercial outlets. I rented a jeep and drove from one end of the island to the other. There was like one little bar and a little gift shop, and that’s pretty much all I remember. I got a lot of suspicious looks and mean mugs, but I sort of expected it because I knew I would stick out like a sore thumb. But you could basically pull off the road anywhere and have miles of beach to yourself. I think i stayed two nights, and while it was a unique and memorable experience that I think outshines every other adventure I’ve had on any of the other islands, I don’t think I would go back. Like I said, people were nice, but I definitely didn’t feel like I would be welcome there for very long.

Another story about Molokai that I thought was funny/interesting:

The island was overrun by an Axis Deer population. They are obviously not native and are invasive to the land. So, the island or the government or whatever, hired a guy to go up in a helicopter with a machine gun and just pull up on these herds of these monstrous deer and he would take out like 300 a day or something, and did that for a couple weeks until the herd was thinned out. Crazy stuff.

To me, Molokai is like the Florida of Hawaii.

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Every year we would have a family reunion on the island. We’d camp on the beach for a week. We’d hunt pig and deer. Go diving and fishing. Pound poi. The kids would pick limu. Food and song all night long.

Great times.

😍

Really!? I visited when I was in high school. Such a beautiful place. The reef on the west side of the island was epic.

Aw thanks! No where on earth I'd love to visit more. Maybe someday in some strange scenario

We visited two coastal redwood parks north of Eureka in June. Spent several hours walking among and admiring those beauties. The experience is like no other. My girlfriend had never seen a giant redwood. She was astonished too. (Didn’t pee, though.) Nature humbles us in the best way.

Probably not an unusual request. Pilot's probably sick of it already.

They are used for a few films I believe too

Thank you. I did a whole series on this trip so I’m sure I’ll be sharing another later on 😊

That is the truth

Lovely

RIP Roger Mosley.

Where cake?

Is it spring yet ❤️❤️

Lucky you!!

OK I'm gonna tell you my story. I was born and raised in California and had visited both the coastal redwoods and Yosemite many times but somehow had never seen these trees. And we had a friend visiting from Thailand who wanted to go to Yosemite, so we took him to the Tuolumne Grove, where you park and then walk a bit down into the forest. And I said to my friend "I'm not sure how we will know which ones are the Sequoiahs. . ." And then when we saw the first one I laughed so hard I peed my pants.

Calling them trees doesn't really describe what's going on with them.

I'm watching Lost TV show right now. I'm pretty sure these cliffs where filmed in that show. Beautiful!

The tree survived all this time for being "useless." The coastal live oaks that grew with straight sturdy trunks and long horizontal branches were all felled and hauled off by British Shipwrights. All of the truly ancient live oaks share this "uselessness."