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Friday, December 16, 2011
Amazing Lava
Wednesday Dec 14th
Puna HI
Don't remember when I wrote last. We've slept near a black sand beach in a canoe house a ranger offered up, in a remote lava field alone in Volcanoes National Park and tonight in an Eco-cabin (camped outside) that is being rented by Rick, a new friend we met our first night on the island. So cool: outdoors shower and toilet among the ferns and orchids, one screened great room with loft and 2 porches. Tiny living. I love it!
But I should talk about the volcano, Pu'u O'o, that's spewing lava and smoke. What a sight! And we hiked across the bed of a crater that erupted in 1959, Kilauea.
(photo deleted here)
It's amazing how stark this lava can look and how rich a soil it is!
It's also so sharp that walking over it is risky business. You don't want to fall...ever! I slipped at the coast one day and scratched my ankle up. It hurts for days. Nasty stuff. But it's so rich that stuff grows when planted in a pile of it!
Hawaii: where all rainbows are born and fruit falls from the sky! That's the definition we've come up with:)
We've seen rainbows almost every day. And we found fruit where no trees were nearby: grapefruit on the beach and a mango in a meadow.
Tonight as I type this we're sitting in the most delightful gathering of locals, good food, hawaiian music, and warm breezes. And male hula dancer.
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Puna HI
Don't remember when I wrote last. We've slept near a black sand beach in a canoe house a ranger offered up, in a remote lava field alone in Volcanoes National Park and tonight in an Eco-cabin (camped outside) that is being rented by Rick, a new friend we met our first night on the island. So cool: outdoors shower and toilet among the ferns and orchids, one screened great room with loft and 2 porches. Tiny living. I love it!
But I should talk about the volcano, Pu'u O'o, that's spewing lava and smoke. What a sight! And we hiked across the bed of a crater that erupted in 1959, Kilauea.
(photo deleted here)
It's amazing how stark this lava can look and how rich a soil it is!
It's also so sharp that walking over it is risky business. You don't want to fall...ever! I slipped at the coast one day and scratched my ankle up. It hurts for days. Nasty stuff. But it's so rich that stuff grows when planted in a pile of it!
Hawaii: where all rainbows are born and fruit falls from the sky! That's the definition we've come up with:)
We've seen rainbows almost every day. And we found fruit where no trees were nearby: grapefruit on the beach and a mango in a meadow.
Tonight as I type this we're sitting in the most delightful gathering of locals, good food, hawaiian music, and warm breezes. And male hula dancer.
- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone
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