VANESSA GOULD | FILMMAKER

KAUAI, SEPTEMBER 2012

Sunset above Hanakapi'ai Beach

Monkey pod tree

Prettiest tree I saw in Hawaii

Waimea Canyon, mid afternoon.

No railings anywhere made it possible to get right to the edge, with a little nausea

Waimea Canyon

Looking out to the Pacific. Sun and clouds constantly made the canyon change.

Near Wai'ale'ale

Top of the canyon towards Wai'Ale'Ale, 5,100 ft into the clouds. 450 inches of rain every year. You can feel water in the air.

Above Kalalau Valley

A few steps further - mountaintop rainforest and swampland to one side, 5,100 foot drop across Kalalau Valley to the sea on the other. Hard to see with clouds so common. It looked like another planet

Hawaiian moonscape

When we arrived, this is what we saw - like what you see out of an airplane, and fluffier clouds below. But we heard there was a view if the clouds lifted, so we waited to see.

Tina in the mist

Tina, looks small in the very center, with her camera pointed over edge of the ridge. We were the only two people there.

Above Kalalau

Lying flat on our stomachs, heads over the edge, we waited for about 50 minutes. Then in seconds it dissolved and the valley down below showed from behind the clouds. Felt like a dream.

Clouds parting above Kalalau

And we got to see it for about 3 minutes.

Above Kalaua

Soon, nothing was visible again.

Mountain goats

Black goats on a ridge, brought to Kauai by Captain Cook and now live on the mountainsides — at Kauai.

Swamp flower

Sunset on west coast of Kauai

Roadside cave

Beach near Hanakapi'ai

Tina caught my ocean bliss before heading to Hanakapi'ai waterfall

View of Ke'e from trail above

Early on climb to Hanikapi'ai Falls

Along the Na'Pali coast

Na'Pali coast, looking west, first time I'd ever seen it

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CATS

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HURRICANE SANDY, BROOKLYN AND ROCKAWAYS, OCTOBER 2012

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SUMMER – NY, MA, CA

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CHILEAN ANDES & TUPUNGATITO, FEBRUARY 2013

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