His descriptions
were wonderful:
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It was the hour at which she liked Waikiki best, the hour just preceding dinner and the quick tropic darkness. The shadows cast by the tall cocoanut palms lengthened and deepened, the light of the falling sun flamed on Diamond Head and tinted with gold the rollers sweeping in from the coral reef.
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Unfortunately, I wonder what he would write were he alive today? These days the shadows that lengthen and deepen on the shore of Waikiki are those of the high-rise hotels. I was there in 1968, well after commercialization had set in, and things have changed drastically even in the short span of time since. I was recently told by a Hawaiian native I wouldn't recognize the place today. Even in Biggers' day his characters complained about the loss of innocence and how the native Hawaiians were a "dying race." It would have been wonderful to have see the land as Captain Cook did.