The year was 1969. Meda and I had just gotten married in August before moving back to Honolulu to attend grad school at UH.

As I recall, my mother gave us a late wedding present, taking us on a tour of the neighbor islands where she shared many of the places (and people) that were important to her.

I’m pretty sure this was taken at a beach park on the Big Island. Notice the bottom of Teem, which disappeared from the market sometime in the 1980s.

I think I must have set my camera on its self-timer to get this shot.