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Article: The real aloha spirit
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- Redlands Daily Facts
- Article date:
- September 12, 2009
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There is a special place under the tropical sun away from the
hectic pace of today's modern existence, an island abundant with
natural and cultural resources and white sand beaches. A place for
independent souls with a sense of adventure. Molokai!
Molokai is the fifth-largest Hawaiian island; its western tip is
22 miles from Oahu. The island is about 38 miles long and 10 miles
wide and has more than 88 miles of pristine coastline. Nowhere on
the island are you further than five miles from the ocean.
Scientist say the island's birth happened some two million years
ago when two volcanoes linked together, forming a fertile plain that
today makes of the bulk of the island. Molokai's west end is ...