After another extremely clear morning this week, that again offered up a view of Molokai, Maui, and Lanai, I thought it would be useful to provide another visual tool for interpreting what we’re seeing out there.
Here’s the view my camera captured from the shoreline between Waialae Beach Park and the Kahala Hotel. I’ve marked what I believe we are seeing, just as I did in a previous post here in November.
Just click on the photo to view a larger version.
Standing on the beach, the section that I’ve marked as Molokai is at 90 degrees on the compass, due east from our position. That’s an important bit of information.
So here’s your visual aid, lifted from Google Maps. It’s s arrayed by the compass. I’ve put a small red dot along Oahu’s Maunalua Bay to show approximately my position when taking the photo. It shows that from a vantage point between Waialae Beach Park and the Kahala Hotel, we are looking west to east across the island of Molokai. The highest points on Molokai are on the east side of the island.
From our position, though, the higher part of Molokai appears to the left of the lower portion.
We then see Haleakala, and then the highest part of Lanai, which appear to the right from our vantage point.
It looks to me as if that’s possible, depending on the angle of view from our vantage point.
At least that’s how it looks to me.
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Mahalo, Great shot & idea with the captions to clarify.
Same shot at higher elevation would be interesting.
Agreed.
Beautifully done. Clear, visually pleasing, and accurate, as far as I can tell.
Mahalo Ian! Superb capture and captions ~ Our Amazing Island State ~ Beautiful beyond compare in every way!
What lovely photos and explanation. A beautiful morning.
Lanai appears to be infront of Haleakala from your Kahala view. The island to the fathest right appears to be separated by a channel of water which the Big Island is.
There’s no way. It is impossible to see anything as far away as the Big Island from the shoreline of Oahu. That’s not because our eyes can’t see that far. It’s because the curvature of the earth leaves even Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea below the horizon when viewed from here on Oahu.
And although the map view shows whole islands, most of Molokai, Maui, and Lanai are also below the horizon when viewed from Kahala. All we can see are the higher elevations, not the lower parts of each island.