Molokai Canoe Club

"If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it!"

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One of my favorite early morning visits when I go home to Molokai is to swing by the Molokai Canoe Club just to see what kinds of canoes are parked there. I imagine the young men and women who practice paddling the canoe several times a week; maybe more as competition time approaches.

That's the Kaunakakai wharf that you see off in the background. Summers at home meant watching the barges come and go each day. The barge parked at the very end of the wharf and was filled up one large crate at a time full of the pineapples that were being harvested. When no more crates could fit on the barge, off it would go. I think there would be at least two barges a day coming and going between Molokai and Oahu. A moving, rectangular brown box going across the often turbulent, sapphire blue channel. It was like a measurement of time.

Funny, when I visit this spot in the early morning, I never run into anyone there. It is so peaceful and quiet; yet you can feel the energy that lives within these canoes. The energy from the paddlers. Even the location itself has a certain kind of energy. I can't quite describe it. It's like the energy that comes from the center of your being. Powerful. Quiet. But, there.

There are a lot of shadows that live here. I caught quite a few of them. But, I am releasing them to you all slowly, one by one. So, know that there are more shadows to come from this spot!

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