Soon after our flight from Honolulu to San Francisco took off on Tuesday morning, I looked across Meda and out the window. There was a dramatic view of half the state! I fumbled around looking for my iPhone, an managed to get a single photo.
Here’s what I think you can see.
Lower right, closest to the camera: The east end of Molokai.
Just above Molokai: The island of Lanai.
Then, moving a bit up and to the left: The West Maui Mountains, looking larger than you might expect.
Continuing up diagonally and to the left: Haleakala, peeking up from behind the clouds, and from this perspective appearing smaller than you would expect.
And then, just above and behind Haleakala, almost lost in the haze, the tops of Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa on Hawaii Island.
This was a quick shot with my iPhone. Not the best possible photo, but it works!
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Fascinating picture!
As I looked at your photo, I remembered a Mark Twain quote about Hawai’i!–
“No alien land in all the world has any deep strong charm for me but that one, no other land could so longingly and so beseechingly haunt me, sleeping and waking, through half a lifetime, as that one has done. Other things leave me, but it abides; other things change, but it remains the same. For me the balmy airs are always blowing, its summer seas flashing in the sun; the pulsing of its surfbeat is in my ear; I can see its garlanded crags, its leaping cascades, its plumy palms drowsing by the shore, its remote summits floating like islands above the cloud wrack; I can feel the spirit of its wildland solitudes, I can hear the splash of its brooks; in my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.”
Beautiful shot Ian – leaving me ever longing to return….
Ian,
Wonder if there is a category for photos taken from airline seats?
You know, people traveling, looking out the window and taking a picture like you did.
Might get some incredible pictures.
Just gorgeous. Thanks for thinking to save the image for us.
Extraordinary Beautiful picture of Hawai’i Nei from the clouds. Mahalo Ian for sharing!