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Good morning everyone,
It’s Friday, and we should all be thankful. The next few days should be exciting – I can’t wait to see who gets through Super Tuesday and who has to fold. The field should winnow so we can focus on choosing from 2, 3 at most.
For the last 9 years We’ve been escaping Montana winter by going to the big island of Hawaii the first week of Feb. Except last year so I really wanted to see the new land from the 2018 eruption. We do 3-4 days in Volcano on the Hilo/rain forest side and the a week in the sun in Kona. Here is a little tour of the grounds of our vrbo there.
I’ll follow this up with the lava.
Path back to our cottage.
View from the porch.
This one and the rest are walking around the grounds. Owners have been here since 1974.
eclare
What a magical place.
Baud
@eclare: Hawaii is so exotic.
J R in WV
We did that some years ago, stayed in a B&B in the fern forest near the little “town” of Volcano, stayed with internet rockhound friend above Hilo. Her husband was an astronaut, became prof of astronomy at U of H in Hilo. Also spent time in Kona with a cousin. Rockhound buddy took us into old lava fields just outside around Volcano Nat Park.
There was a crevice that had opened and blew molten shards of lava into the air, which the wind blew consistently to one side of the crevice, where it piled up into a long haystack kind of pile of sharp shards maybe 20-25 feet high and at least a mile long, it ran out of sight. Tiny ferns growing in small depressions that held rain/mist water.
Sulfur crystals growing by fumaroles, glittering in the sunshine. Like being on another planet. Ferns growing 30 feet high, moss a foot thick.
Without any pre-knowledge, ran into neighbors from here in WV at the Park HQ… I was browsing the books about volcanology and the plants around the volcano when I heard a shout, “Hey, My Name!” and it was an old friend we’ve known for nearly 40 years now. in the middle of the Pacific! I’m not sure I have a grip on those photos…
JPL
Wow! What amazing and magical pictures.
arrieve
I want to go there. Now.
MelissaM
I love that the moss is like kudzu, covering everything in its path. Lovely pictures!
realbtl
Thanks folks. Though I love the sun over in Kona I find the Hilo side quite magical.
lurker dean
very nice! iirc hilo is the rainiest place in the united states, which is why it’s so lush. we’re supposed to go to oahu at the end of march, but i’m starting to think that may not happen with the coronavirus situation :(