It is summer, and you see signs of it here in Kaaawa.
At the top, a couple of roadside entrepreneurs ply their trade of the day. Coconuts, 2/$5. We drove by later. Just a few coconuts were left, and boys were gone.
And its the season for those little silvery fish, the oama, and the groups of people who line up in shallow water along the shore to catch the little delicacies.
But, it seems, there’s a generation gap. We came across this scene earlier this morning. Boy on beach with digital device. Family in water with fishing poles. Between, a great digital divide.
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I am dead serious when I say that you should submit that third photo to the monthly National Geographic amateur photo contest. It sums up the new generation entirely. In some ways, they are not really ‘local’, not just in Hawaii, but everywhere. They live in cyberspace. Because Hawaii typically represents a kind of timeless paradise in the global imagination, this is truly a one-of-a-kind, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Why has no one else noticed this? It’s a classic photo.
I agree 100 percent with changing times.