Monday, May 3, 2010

A Quiet Pond on the Edge of Punaluu

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At the edge of this palm fringed beach at Punaluu is a quiet pond…everyone is at the beach enjoying the hot black sand and looking for basking sea turtles.



But I am more drawn to this beautiful pond filled with purplewater lilly blossoms which are blooming profusely everywhere, I’m tempted to wade in and pluck one out.



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Their flowers and leaves are floating effortlessly on the water and palm shadows fall into the water creating rippled abstracts of their blowing leaves…very hypnotic.

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I walk around the pond and cross two small bridges connecting various parts and see different scenes unfold with pictures framed in many shades of green.


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I love exploring areas that are obviously in slow decay and just waiting for someone to rediscover the beauty of its hidden charms, just like this little pond.


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I’m glad a took a moment to explore this and enjoy her little flowered treasures, it was just what I was looking for at the beach….not quite what anyone expected.



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27 comments:

  1. What a delightful, beautiful place, Noel! And your photos are superb! Love the lilies in the water and the shadows! Hope you have a wonderful week!

    Sylvia

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  2. Hi Noel, you have discovered your own Shangri La. This is such a dreamy place, and I love your photos. Yes, I could step right into them :)

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  3. I have been there a few times and always long to return. We have walked all over the lava in the ocean there...it's delightful! And, I LOVE those reflections in the pond!

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  4. Noel, beautiful scenes and photos! You do live in a wonderful place!

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  5. How graceful are those coconut trees. I would really love to see any of the HI islands.

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  6. your world is just paradise.

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  7. The shapes and colors are really wonderful. Elegant, peaceful, fine.

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  8. You live in a beautiful place and your "eye" for photography makes the beautiful place even more outstanding. Great photos. I'll be back.
    And thanks for stopping by my blog.

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  9. Lovely, still moments captured. Definitely a wonderful place to wander about.

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  10. What a beauty! That's why they call it paradise.

    RYC: They are not fake rocks, they are real and I touched them. Maybe the lighting made it look like you described them.

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  11. I love your reflections and the lushness of everything.

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  12. Beautiful sequence of photographs and words. Hawaii is such a magnificent part of the world and I enjoy seeing and learning more about it from your posts.

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  13. Beautiful pond. Nice place to relax.

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  14. Friends tell me so much about Hawaii. Lovely and enchanting!

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  15. Noel: What a neat pond and the Water Lilies are wonderful.

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  16. That's the kind of spot I would seek out and love as well. Thank you for sharing your secret find!

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  17. What a beautiful place to be and explore..
    Great photographs.
    Costas

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  18. Great place to be! How Beautiful!
    Happy day to you!
    hughugs

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  19. What perfect reflections - such serenity!

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  20. What an amazing place, wonderful pics, Noel!

    marinela x

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  21. Very beautiful. Alaska and Hawaii are the only two states I've never been to. Hoping to do both some day.
    ~Randy

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  22. What beautiful photos you have here! Amazing place!

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  23. Poetry like photography. Makes one glad to know that there are still such places left and you have the luck living there.
    Thank you for sharing. Please have a wonderful Wednesday.

    daily athens

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  24. Beautiful pictures. Reminds me of the tropical world and the coconut trees where I am from (Kerala, a small state on the south west tip of India)

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  25. That looks like a gorgeous area. I remember spending an afternoon on a black sand beach on Kauai, and it was very different from anything else I've seen.

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