Description: This is a fabulous spot near South Point on the Big Island, Hawaii.
About Margaret Stanton's prints
Artist's Note: This is a very remote and exquisite place on the Big Island. I don't think there is anybody living here or anything much else except roadside restrooms and a monument - remote. There is what remains of what was the busiest port on the island in the 1800's. There are groves of coconut palms, now, a sign that people had lived here. Beautiful fishing ponds hug the black sand beach that curves around the inlet. From here the land slopes steeply up the side of Mauna Loa, this planet's largest mountain mass and a still active, growing volcano. This is the first place you come to on the South Point side of the Volcano National Park. Pele didn't take this place. Punalu'u is a pristine place on a rough, wild edge. I can feel that peace along with it's vulnerability. It's like a place in time that will be no more. I feel passion for this place.