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Umiyama 海山 said:

I haven't been out that way in awhile...good to hear things are still progressing.

As for American Flats, it's been long rumored that there were plans to raze the old cyanide mill. I think current operations higher in the ravine might discourage any tourists from the rail line though.


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spronco said:

Bhutan prayer flags on display for special exhibit in Spring 2008.


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spronco said:

The Pyramid Rock Light consists of a light mounted on the roof of a square concrete workhouse, painted with distinctive black and white diagonal stripes. The light guides vessels into Kane'ohe Bay and overlooks a recreational beach for the marines.

( Courtesy of: Lighthousefriends.com)


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spronco said:

Waiale'e Boy's Industrial School

courtesy of: Urban Exploration Resource website (www.UER.CA)

Wai'ale'e was more than a community in 1906 but a town surrounding the Boy's Industrial School. This school was a reform school for 106 mainly Hawaiian boys convicted of such things from Disobediance of Parents to Assault and Battery. The school was self sufficient with pineapple and taro fields. Later a girls school was added. The first postmaster happened to be the superintendant of the school T.H. Gibson. The schools name was changed in 1930 to the Waialee Training School and possibly ceased to exist in 1935. It is now partially owned by the state. One of the main buildings lies in ruin on the property of what is now the Crawford Convalescent Home. The basic complex is still there with some other foundations in the brush nearby. The flag pole in the center of the 1906 picture is still there on the grounds of the convalescent home.


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spronco said:

Your local airport probably doesn't have a statue of a god pulling the sun from the sky, but we do. Maui wanted the sun to slow down so his mother's tapa cloth could dry. That's why we have the nice weather.

Courtesy of MAUIHI.com Website


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14MAN02 said:

Nice picture, greetings from germany!!!


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spronco said:

awesome! Hate to go swimming there!


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spronco said:

Friggin' awesome shot!!!!


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Buck Cash said:

Thanks for the update Photon Flux! You do realize, of course, that photographers submitting to Panoramio are advised to place their marker where the photo was shot FROM, rather than place it where the object shot exists, right?


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