Hawaiian Descriptive Writing

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It’s around 4:00 in the morning. I’m in my pickup truck waiting patiently for the sun to come up. As I await for eventual sunlight, I look up into the sky and gaze at the magnificent Milky Way Galaxy. I’m just amazed at how incredible the night sky alone is. I occasionally see a shooting star, failing to remember to make a wish. As time passes by, I see that the stars are fading away, leaving me with no light to comfort me. With nothing visible to keep me thinking, I fall asleep.
I’ve woken up and it’s 5:00 am. I see the sun deliberately rising above the majestic Haleakala. As I watch the sun rise, I wonder how the hell the ancient Hawaiians came up with an urban legend about a kid pulling the damn sun out of Haleakala with some bloody rope just so his mother could dry some fabric. The sun must have had some kind of hangover.
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Many young birds are seen perching, telling their mothers to let them sleep for five more minutes. As I look a little deeper, I notice that the swaying of the tree’s leaves are synchronized. The clean crisp Lanai wind blows and branches fall down.
As I turn my head, I make my mind’s way toward the ocean. I see brown water contaminating Lanai’s coral reefs. This makes me think of what will Lanai’s waters will be like in the future. Unaware of the ocean’s conditions, some fishermen head down to the beach, who will eventually end up disappointed with the water’s

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