In Hawaii

Typical Windblown Tree of Ka Lae (South Point) Hawaii

Mother's for every human

Eve’s (Peace be upon her) Grave

Location: Makbaratu Unmunah Hawa (Meaning Graveyard of Mother Hawa or Eve), Bab Mukkah, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia( Je-dah means of old mothers)

The old entrance to the graveyard, which is no longer in use.

The new gate or entrance.

The gate sign.

The grave on the left is assumed to be the grave of Mother Hawa (Peace be upon her).

View of other graves in the graveyard. Note the size of them.

Compare the size of the graves in respect to the khatia’s (dead body carrier) left on the side of present day human sizes.

The graves of our giant ancestors.

Giant graves are also discovered in different parts of the middle-east. A giant single foot print is found on Adam’s peak in Srilanka, which is assumed to be the foot print of Father Adam (Peace be upon him) who stood on one of his foot for 350 years as a gesture of punishment to himself in order to seek mercy and forgiveness from Allah in prayer until he was forgiven. That is why we see only one foot print there. That print is also of a giant. However, the local people says that it is the foot print of Buddah

Beach

1 - Pantai pasir putih yang terputih di dunia(White beach)

Foto kredit: Jonassmith

  Pantai Hyams, New South Wales, Australia. Telah masuk Guiness Book Of World Records sebagai pantai pasir putih yang terputih di dunia. 

2 - Pantai pasir hitam (Black Sand Beach)

Foto kredit: entremontanas.com

Pantai Pasir Hitam ini terletak di kepualauan Hawaii. Bukan sahaja pantainya yang berpasir hitam yang menarik, tetapi juga ada glasier tidewater, air terjun yang menakjubkan, dan kawasan-kawasan lereng bukit yang hijau.

Pasir hitam ini sebenarnya adalah zarah-zarah magnet yang sememangnya akan bertarikan kepada magnet sebenar.

3 - Pantai Pasir Hijau (Green Sand Beach)

Foto kredit: jeneka-sanford.blogspot.com

Papakolea Beach adalah pantai pasir hijau yang terletak di South Point, daerah Kau, Pulau Hawaii. Salah satu daripada hanya dua pantai pasir hijau di dunia, selain di Guam. Pantai ini mendapat pewarna yang tersendiri daripada kristal olivine yang terdapat dalam kon arang besi yang berhampiran.

4 - Pantai Pasir Merah (Red Sand Beach)

Foto kredit: patricksmithphotography.com

Pantai ini terletak di selatan Hana Bay dan ia juga dikenali sebagai Pantai Pasir Merah. Laluan utama ke pantai ialah pinggir tebing. Warna merah pasir diberikan oleh kon arang besi berdekatan bukit yang mengelilingi teluk.

5 - Pantai Pasir Ungu 

Foto kredit: fineartamerica.com

Pantai dengan pasir pantai berwarna ungu (purple) ini terletak di Pfeiffer Beach, California, AS. Tambah menarik lagi dengan banyak bebatuan besar tepi pantai.

6 - Pantai Kaca(Glass Beach)

Foto kredit: photoming.com

Pantai Kaca berada di bahagian pantai Fort Bragg di MacKerricher State Park, California. Setelah Perang Dunia II pantai ini digunakan sebagai tempat pembuangan, selama dua dekad akhirnya dihentikan. Sejak itu, ombak membawa  pecahan kaca ke pantai hingga memenuhinya. Penyebabnya menyedihkan, tetapi hasilnya mengujakan.

7 - Pantai atas darat(Sand Beach)

Foto kredit: sharp2share

Pantai Gulpiyuri berhampiran Llanes di Sepanyol. Pantai ini didapati sepenuhnya di atas darat di teluk indah  kecil yang kelihatan seperti sesuatu yang fantasi.

Laut Cantabrian mengorek di muka bumi untuk mewujudkan tempat berpasir ini, dan walaupun anda tidak boleh melihat lautan, gelombang ombak menghempas pantainya seperti mana-mana pantai (cuma tidak kuat sangat) , seperti kolam ombak ajaib.

8 - Pantai Bola Bowling (Bowling Ball Beach)

Foto kredit: jonkleinphoto.com

Terletak di perairan California di sebuah bandar yang bernama Mendocino, dan di tempat yang dipanggil Schooner Gulch. Dinamakan pantai bola bowling kerana sepanjang pantai ini ada pemandangan yang cukup unik dengan adanya ribuan batu-batu yang seragam dalam ukuran dan bentuk yang mirip dengan bola bowling.

9 - Pantai lapangan terbang

Foto kredit: castlebay-hotel.co.uk

Barra Airport mungkin adalah satu-satunya lapangan terbang dimana kapal terbang mendarat di tepi pantai. Ianya terletak di Outer Hebrides, Scotland.

10 - Pantai Air Panas (Hot Water Beach)

Pantai Air Panas ini terletak di Waikato, New Zealand. Pantai ini dikunjungi 130,000 pengunjung setiap tahun kerana tarikan geothermal nya. Air panas dapat mencapai 64 º C (147 º F), tetapi anda harus menggali lubang untuk menikmatinya.

Takungan air bawah tanah ini telah dibentuk oleh gunung berapi kerana ia mencapai permukaan. Ia adalah lokasi yang sangat sesuai untuk mandi air panas.

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The beautiful valley at Hanalei Bay on Kauai, one of my favourite places on all of the earth and on the beach here Samdog and I got engaged.

mmmmargeritas at the the Billabong house..so lush

Do you think this is enough surfboards for two people, well guess again this is only half of it. First thing this week..check into the chiropractor after lugging board bags around for nearly a month!

The view from my bedroom..ahhh take me back now.

The taxi driver told me he had a history with traffic accidents....excellent.

Launch of the collaboration at the Billabong house on the first day of Pipe, totally insane experience.

I lost my sunglasses at Waikiki and got them back hours later..I know it's a miracle, this wasn't even a busy day.

Pipe on a smaller day.

Sharks Cove on the north shore, I've sold many boards here.  The thing I've found about Hawaii is that no matter how big the boards are that I take over I always seem to need bigger ones, scarey.

Seriously..I never got sick of the palm trees can you tell.

Where history is made, dreams are achieved and broken,  and ambulances are busier than ever.

The view from our room in Waikiki.

Acai bowls at BeetBox cafe, Haleiwa....mm heaven.

Sunset at KeIki

Hawaiian style, everyone has to get lei'd, sorry i had to slip that one in.

The view from the house on the second day of the contest.

Waikiki

  Opaeka’a falls:

Across the road, the Wailua river was running brown and looking like it was going to overflow its banks. The Kamokila village down there was closed (but maybe it’s not open on Sunday):
Then we drove to Wailua falls. Everthing along the road was soaked, and the ditches by the golf course were full. But there didn’t seem to be any flooding, so the county’s work on clearing the vegetation out of the drainage ditches has paid off. Even the Kaua’i roosters were soaked, their feathers dull and their tails drooping.
Wailua falls was even more impressive, with the full flow of the South Fork plunging over. I estimate there was 2-3 feet of water going over the full width of the waterfall—except the one place on the left where a tree was still clinging to the edge:
We stood there for over 15 minutes with our umbrellas, fascinated at the wall of water tumbling down. The brown water flowed over in a solid sheet, then it separated into streams and finally separated into white water drops in very intricate and ever-changing patterns. I tried to get a photo of the effect, but my camera is not good enough, so this is just an enlargement of the previous photo:
Almost as impressive was the massive cloud of spray that was blowing the trees like a strong wind. We did see two tropic birds flying around, wondering why they were flying in the mist and what the view was like from there. And with all that water, the round pool at the bottom was gone, all the rocks and vegetation covered by the outflow.
On the way home, I pulled over at Wailua beach and walked on the bike path back across the new bridge. The river mouth was spread out wider than the length of the bridge:
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