McWay Falls Frame Color:Black The pastel is the marine

The pastel is the marine layer doing its work: a low band of cloud over the cold California current that diffuses and warms the dropping sun

and geometry the city is known for are the architecture of that period

not the wave

by August in most years it's a trickle

Nāmolokama is the green amphitheater of ridges that rises behind Hanalei Bay on Kauaʻi's north shore

McWay Falls Frame Color:Black The pastel is the marineMcWay Falls drops 80 feet from the cliff above into the cove below Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park in Big Sur one of the only two waterfalls in California that fall directly onto a beach. The cove itself isn't accessible; there's no legal trail down. Tom shoots from the public overlook on the bluff above, the falls landing onto the sand and the swell rolling in turquoise behind.