We are enjoying a couple of days on Maui with old friends who have rented a condo in Wailea to escape the Canadian weather for several years running. This morning we walked down to Keawakapu Beach as the sun rose from behind Haleakala. That’s Kahoolawe and Molokini in the background. What you don’t see is the solid wall of high-priced hotels and condominiums that see to stretch forever.
And here’s an oldie taken from about the same spot during a family vacation in 1960. All the development was still in the future. A very different time, indeed.
Keawakapu was the end of the improved road at that time. Beyond, it was all dirt roads and keawe trees, even an occasional cattle guard to keep the cows from wandering down from Ulupalakua Ranch, I suppose. That’s my dad standing next to the car.
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you forgot to mention the strategically planted naupaka in front of the wall of development that is ever-slowing covering the little bit of public beach left.
Or, the rock groin that is now under water from the intervening sea level rise.
For people our age the environmental “now” is almost always worse than the “then”. And when the present is better it is usually because someone has torn down structures built in the ’50s and ’60s when it was Honolulu’s misfortune to have its development surge during one of the worst periods in American architectural history.
Love all the pictures – thank you for sharing!