The island of Molokai
Crossing the channel Maui-Molokai has been a bit sporty, quite windy again, and still big surf. We went through the North Island, on the advice of our neighbor to Hilo. It's actually very nice, the whole east coast in steep cliffs 600 meters high, and all dug deep trenches, sometimes with more or less cascading water provided. We had 21 or 22 just the 26 km between East Point and the Peninsula in the middle of the island, including 2 beautiful great. There is no crowd there, all on the island there are 6,000 inhabitants, and they are all on the other side, where the mountain slopes gently toward the sea, where there are long beaches.
Kalaupapa Peninsula is an advanced
flat-earth, perpendicular to the large cliffs. There is a village, cars, a road that circles the peninsula, but I was scrutinizing the beautiful mountains around, I saw no way they can not escape. In this very isolated spot that was the leper. There are no other shelters along the coast, they are really all alone. And we have no right to land without permission. Behind the peninsula we are protected from the sea, but no wind, and he began to have nice acceleration. We tried to anchor for 1h avoiding leaving the anchor in the coral, this is money from 20 yards with big potatoes to 10 m, not easy! The boat was difficult to maneuver in the strong gusts of wind, and we decided to leave. Only it was not planned, there are only 40 miles to Honolulu, and it did not happen overnight ...
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