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Waimea Canyon State Park seen via helicopter on island of Kauai, Hawaii, USA.

Waimea Canyon State Park, seen via helicopter on island of Kauai, Hawaii, USA. Waimea Canyon ("the Grand Canyon of the Pacific") slices as much as 3000 feet deep across ten miles of western Kauai. About 4 million years ago, a catastrophic collapse of the volcano that created Kauai created a fault which was gradually cut deeper by the Waimea River, fed by extreme rainfall on the island's central peak, Mount Wai'ale'ale, among the wettest places on Earth. Waimea is Hawaiian for "reddish water," referring to the local orange clay. This image was stitched from multiple overlapping images.

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Waimea Canyon State Park, seen via helicopter on island of Kauai, Hawaii, USA. Waimea Canyon ("the Grand Canyon of the Pacific") slices as much as 3000 feet deep across ten miles of western Kauai. About 4 million years ago, a catastrophic collapse of the volcano that created Kauai created a fault which was gradually cut deeper by the Waimea River, fed by extreme rainfall on the island's central peak, Mount Wai'ale'ale, among the wettest places on Earth. Waimea is Hawaiian for "reddish water," referring to the local orange clay. This image was stitched from multiple overlapping images.
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