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| Sat, 06-11-2005 - 2:21pm |
click on this link for some hawaii photos -- some from surfing, one (as promised) in my bikini on the balcony of our room in waikiki, some from volcanos national park... the one with the street sign is from where the road was covered over in an eruption a couple of years ago - we had to hike down through that lava field for about 3 miles each way to see the erupting lava. it was the hardest hike i ever did because it was over lava fields - there was no trail and lava is very hard to hike on. to give you an idea, it took 2 hours to hike the 3 miles (and then 2 hours to hike back) going as fast as we could. in the picture with all the steam, the steam is coming from molten lava pouring into the sea. the whole lower piece of shore isn't really land, it's a crust of molten and cooled lava that has jutted out over the ocean. the real land really ends just in front of us where the darker lava ends in a cliff. in real life we could see red lava pouring into the ocean when the winds would blow some steam out of the way, but T doesn't have a good telephoto on his camera so you can't actually see the red lava in the photo. we also couldn't stay too long, because it was getting dark and we didn't want to do the whole 3 mile hike back in the dark.
the view of the valley is the waipio valley on the Big Island. tens of thousands of hawaiians used to live there and grow taro and bury their royalty there. now only a few people live there. we didn't go down into the valley because you need a four wheel drive vehicle.
the photo of us with the observatories in the background is from the summit of mauna kea - about 13700 ft. as you can see the air was very sharp and clear there. the altitude made me feel drunk. it was the quietest place i've ever been -- if you held still, there was no sound except the wind blowing in your own hair and clothes. there are no animals, no vegetation, nothing. i hiked to the actual exact summit (see photo of tiny me alone on hill) and although it was a short hike, it kicked my butt up at that altitude.
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If I only knew how to whistle online. You are sexsay in that bikini. Hawaii looks so beautiful.
Paula
GREAT photos!
I'm glad that you enjoyed your trip out here.
~Kiervin~
Co-author of: MONSTER'S INK HORROR ANTHOLOGY By Cyber-Pulp Press
we saw it from afar at night - as we got almost back to the road, it got dark and you could see rivulets of lava up on the hillside. then back where the road ends, the park service had telescopes set up and you could see the same spots we had hiked out to, but now in the dark it was even more dramatic. through the fancy telescopes, you could see it almost as well as you could after the 3 mile hike which made me briefly wonder why we had bothered with the 4 hour hike at all! but we are hardcore!
the place we stayed on the big island in the puna district is about 10 miles from the current eruption site and about five miles from the end of the road where it was covered in lava a few years ago (it's the opposite end of same lava field that covered the road through the park - so that it used to be a short drive to the park, but now that the road is out you have to drive much farther inland to get to the park). there used to be a town there that isn't there anymore, it got covered with lava. it's still on the road signs though. some people whose houses were spared still live there and have to drive a four wheel drive over the lava to get to their homes. it's very odd staying at a resort on top of a currently-erupting volcano.