Island fever surely, certainly exists here on the Big Island, but it’s entirely a different feeling here compared to the other seven. I have yet to visit the other side, and even here where I am there is vast mountainscape, and lavascape, to the horizon in every landward direction. The vast sea is still omnipresent, but its pull is somewhat diminished compared to the connection to pacha mama. Hawai’i conveys multitudes, no matter the direction.