Island Time wave framed between wind-bent palms on

framed between wind-bent palms on a day the mountain was giving everything it had

sun bouncing back off pale rock

Ben got there at first light

there are dozens of others

Natalie hiked the cliffs above the Na Pali Coast as a child — barefoot in the red dirt

Island Time wave framed between wind-bent palms onMauritius sits about 700 miles east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean a volcanic island ringed almost entirely by coral reef, which is why the lagoons inside the reef sit so flat and so blue. Pointe de Flacq is on the windward east coast, the side most international visitors skip in favor of the developed west. Alex shoots in black and white, the palm rows reading as repeating verticals against the still water.