Getting Oriented

Getting Oriented

Unlike the other Hawaiian islands with their tropical splendors, Lanai looks like a desert: kiawe trees right out of Africa, red-dirt roads that glow molten at sunset, and a deep blue sea that literally leads to Tahiti. Lanaihale (house of Lanai), the mountain that bisects the island, is carved into deep canyons by rain and wind on the windward side, and the drier leeward side slopes gently to the sea, where waves pound against surf-carved cliffs.



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