Few landmarks in Hawaii carry more prominence and visibility than Diamond Head. Even tourists to Hawaii know about Diamond Head, though few know why the extinct volcano is so named.
Regardless, Diamond Head, mostly unchanged in modern times, (after all, it’s a big hole of rock, so to speak) transforms each year. From late spring to early fall, Diamond Head is dusty and dry, a forlorn landmark that stands out like a sore and visibly dry thumb from the lush green of nearby Kapiolani Park.
In fall and winter the rains come. Diamond Head begins a transformation from an arid rock in paradise to an arid rock in paradise covered in a thriving, luxuriously green band of vegetation. It’s beautiful.
As with Hawaii’s daily sunsets, Diamond Head’s winter beauty doesn’t last. Dry weather and increased sunshine force the green band to retreat into a hibernation. While island residents sweat through a long dry summer, seemingly lengthened by the effects of global warming, Diamond Head’s beauty slumbers, only to be awakened by by the winter tears of nature.
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