Staying on the Kaeleku sugar plantation, the notoriously prickly artist was given Patricia Jennings, the 12-year-old daughter of the plantation manager, as her private guide, and the two became unlikely friends; for 10 days the pair visited sea caves, ruins and beaches, and later, with Patricia's father, made excursions to the dramatic Iao Valley and Haleakala Crater.
Now, he said, "when you visit Sea Cliff it's like walking into a Norman Rockwell painting".
A polite visiting sea monster perhaps, or was there a deeper comment on mankind's social and ecological self-destruction at work? "My bits all wander in the trees," the visitor tells us, as if they're the personification of evolution waving goodbye to its most spectacular success story, hoping for a less carbon-guzzling and fighty strain next time.
The Amazon stands for earth; the Canadian Arctic for ice; aboriginal Australia represents fiery desert; she visits sea gypsies off the coast of the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia for the chapter on water; and to write about air she travels to the mountains of West Papua.
Barges may visit sea terminals on the left river bank and right river bank in the same round trip, go to Rotterdam or Amsterdam via the Scheldt-Rhine connection or sail to Zeebrugge via the Scheldt estuary.
Fans of miniature lighthouses should visit Sea-Lites Lighthouses.
It is a pleasant little walk, with ducks, mallards, two or three graceful swans and noisy, visiting sea-birds sailing down the river or jostling for perching places on the tiny, rocky islands; and, later on, the expanding views as you climb up the steepening fellside to the ruins.
THE last time I had visited Sea Gull Lake in northeastern Minnesota, I had seen demonic rage boiling through the forest.
President Obama has also previously visited Sea Life Park near Hanauma Bay and the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor.
Erin Brethauer, a photographer living in North Carolina, visited the sea caves.
Apart from all the books and articles, television and radio programmes, an astonishing 5 million people visited the sea of poppies around the Tower of London.
