The southern most tip of Hawaii,Travel Photo Mondays
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Pasture land in South Point
It’s a desolate drive down to the southern tip of Hawaii, also considered the southern most tip of the United States. A large grassy landscape of pasture land with no trees, it’s very windy and quiet along an almost one lane paved road to the southern tip of Hawaii Island. It really could be anywhere in the world except that the weather is nice and balmy for winter compared to the rest of the mainland USA.
It’s a 12 mile jaunt from the main highway looping the island and we are there in no time, at the junction we go straight – the other road leading to a rare green sand beach which I will be posting about in an upcoming post. Off to the right are huge wind fans perching on top of sheer cliffs dropping directly into the deep blue of the Pacific ocean.
Cliffs along South Point
Finally we arrive abruptly at the end which is edged with rugged cliffs which drop straight into the ocean. Rusting old cranes – a remainder of a bygone fishing legacy to the area is now used mostly for hanging out or as a jumping platform to the cold waters below. Surprisingly there were a few bold or crazy tourists ready to dive 25 feet into the cold water below -a little too scary in my opinion. In any case, it was nice to just enjoy the panoramic views and take some scenic photographs of the area.
Open hole along the cliffs
Old crane platforms
We continued driving down the other end of the roadway to a parking area leading to a coastal hike to this green sand beach along the southern tip of the island. One of the few green sand beaches in the world, the hike is quite beautiful (here’s a preview of the start of the hike below). I’ll write-up another post as a follow-up to this post on South Point. Thanks for visiting the southern most tip of Hawaii, hope you enjoyed the tour.
Hike to the green sand beach
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Breathtaking photographs, particularly of the cliffs along South Point!
Hi Noel. Look, I linked this week! I loved your pictures – South Point is a fabulous place. We spent a couple days down there at an amazing B&B and loved the sort of desolate wildness of it. It’s crazy and so NOT how people picture Hawaii. Kind of like slimy damp cave/bridges in Morocco!
Hi Cindy, Thanks for linking up and I love your poost also, that is quite an unusual experience for Morocco!
Absolutely gorgeous!
I was going to jump up and down (virtually anyway) and say that Key West was the southernmost point in the US and then I realized that Key West claims to be the southernmost “city”, not the southernmost point — and I’m not sure if they mean the contiguous US or not. As we head to Oahu to begin our 3 month stay in Hawaii on Thursday(!), I think the phrase “contiguous United States” might become annoying. Does it get on Hawaiians’ nerves? Anyway, since I had to refer to my blog post about Key West, I decided to link to that below. Aloha.
Beautiful photos, scenic place …
Gorgeous photos as ever … makes me want to visit … and I too love the one of the horses. The light is fabulous 🙂
One of these days I promise to be ready and link up. Great idea.
No way you’d catch me diving from those cliffs. Beautiful scenes there at the southern-most tip of Hawaii. Love the horses pic, too.
Love the Ka’u area and coastline! Thanks for highlighting this part of the Big Island, Noel!
Wow what a beautiful photos and amazing nature! Thanks for sharing!
Loving the colours, Noel. Hawaii, like our very own Gran Canaria, is clearly more colourful than most envisage. Can’t wait for the next Travel Photo Monday.
Great Hawaii photos as usual. I’m excited. This week we have an exhibition of Ansel Adam’s Hawaii photos opening at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum.
That’s excellent, I didn’t get to see them when they had his images in Oahu for a special exhibit!
Gorgeous Noel! I’ve never been that far south. I love, love, love the horses!
I love that first shot, perfect for the year of the horse too :).
Loves how the water hit the shore!
Beautiful place…
I love the textures in the old crane equipment. The rust colors and aged woods against the bright colors of the sea. Nicely done.
What a beautiful tour of South Point! I can’t wait to read more about the green beach. The photos from the cliff are gorgeous. Please tell me people weren’t jumping into that hole along the cliffs!
Wow, so breathtaking. It’s nice to see how the southernmost point of Hawaii/US looks like. Everything looks so alive in your photos. That photo of a brave guy on the edge of the cliff gave me jelly knees. It looks so scary. I can just imagine how picturesque the hike is on the green sand beach. Looking forward to your post about it.
These are such amazing photos… beautiful
What lovely photos! I especially love the first one of the horses! 🙂