Hawaii’s beaches are awesome! Photos by Charles O’Rear, Oct. 1973.
Hanauma Bay is a popular Oahu destinations for great snorkeling!
Photos by Charles O’Rear, Oct. 1973
Hawaii’s famous Kaimu black sand beach, south of Hilo, Hawaii, on the Big Island. Photos by Charles O’Rear, Nov. 1973.
While on O’ahu, the DailyDOCUMERICA team took a morning to climb Diamond Head. [Insert exhausted panting here] Whew! Won’t try that again with a 5-year-old. As exhausting as it was, we’re happy to brag that the DailyDOCUMERICA team reached Diamond Head’s crater rim. The views of Waikiki Beach and Honolulu below and to the west are truly stunning.
Here we have two photographs: The first by Charles O’Rear, giving a view of Diamond Head looking east from high atop Honolulu; the second is a recent photograph I snapped while gasping for breath atop Diamond Head, looking west toward Waikiki Beach and Honolulu.
Now let’s turn to water pollution photos by Marc St. Gil. St. Gil did his DOCUMERICA assignments in South-central Texas. Remember the hippies from my past feature. St. Gil took many of those in Leakey, Texas. But it appears St. Gil also worked in the Lake Charles, Louisiana, area in June 1972.
If there were no people in these photographs, it would be a whole different story I think. The context of people swimming, actually immersing themselves in water so close to pollution producing industry is just unthinkable. Yet the swimmers in these photos don’t seem to be worried at all, and seem to be enjoying their time in the water.
Original caption: Olin Mathieson Chemical Plant on Far Side of Lake 07/1972. Photo by Marc St. Gil.
Can you image that people still might be visiting the shores of Lake Charles for recreation? Well, here’s your answer: http://on.msnbc.com/JdMMJb
Original caption: This land along Jamaica Bay Is owned by the JFK Airport 06/1973. Photo by Arthur Tress.
A school of tire fish have sadly beached themselves near JFK airport.
