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Re: Ride Report: Puna Side, the land down under... Hilo
Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 12:01 am
by Deleted User 62
Airbear wrote:Great stuff Tim. I love the tree tunnel and the avatar pic. I wonder if Hawaiians feel kind of puny when they see all that molten rock oozing and consider that Mother Nature will probably have some more big surprises to show at some time in the future.
ps: What if the wrong end of the island falls off?
Actually, it's not Ma Nature: Hawaiian legend has it that the goddess Pele lives in the volcano, and the destruction is evidence of her anger. Seems she's angry a lot, lately...
We joke that this place is like a disaster theme park, with all the volcanos, earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, floods, drought, plagues of rodents etc. Just another day in (cough) "paradise"! There's no telling what would happen should the south end of the island drop into the ocean, the seabed is actually tilting under the weight of the island as the volcanos add new land... Geologic features that used to be underwater on the north end of the island are now several feet above the high tide mark
...and the black sand beach was slowly sinking into the ocean, as evidenced by the palm trees growing below the high tide level: Kalapana the way it was:
Here is the lava flow approaching town:
and a beforeand after shot of the main store /cafe in Kalapana:
Re: Ride Report: Puna Side, the land down under... Hilo
Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 12:06 am
by Deleted User 62
Zombie Master wrote:Great post as usual. I love the old little shops that still exist there. Might come that way this winter.
If you do decide to come, give me a couple months advance notice and I will try to get two BMWs running at the same time, and we'll go for a ride!
Re: Ride Report: Puna Side, the land down under... Hilo
Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 1:34 am
by Major Softie
Tim Shepherd wrote:
Actually, it's not Ma Nature: Hawaiian legend has it that the goddess Pele lives in the volcano, and the destruction is evidence of her anger.
A rose by any other name.
Re: Ride Report: Puna Side, the land down under... Hilo
Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 10:35 am
by Garnet
Tim Shepherd wrote:
Actually, it's not Ma Nature: Hawaiian legend has it that the goddess Pele lives in the volcano, and the destruction is evidence of her anger. Seems she's angry a lot, lately...
Was GS over there?
Re: Ride Report: Puna Side, the land down under... Hilo
Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 10:38 am
by Garnet
I was over in that area in the early 80's and went swimming in the Queen's Bath, now long gone. And there again in 1990, man what a differance.
I have very fine (hazy) memories of the Big Island.
Re: Ride Report: Puna Side, the land down under... Hilo
Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 11:00 am
by gspd
Garnet wrote:Tim Shepherd wrote:
Actually, it's not Ma Nature: Hawaiian legend has it that the goddess Pele lives in the volcano, and the destruction is evidence of her anger. Seems she's angry a lot, lately...
Was GS over there?
Not my fault.
Hell has no fury as a woman scorned.
Re: Ride Report: Puna Side, the land down under... Hilo
Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 1:47 pm
by Major Softie
Tim Shepherd wrote:
Actually, it's not Ma Nature: Hawaiian legend has it that the goddess Pele lives in the volcano, and the destruction is evidence of her anger.
Hey, wait a minute! I thought Pele was the god of soccer...
Re: Ride Report: Puna Side, the land down under... Hilo
Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 9:23 pm
by Steve78RS
Tim and others
There seems to be a hell of a lot of tectonic activity in the Pacific rim over the last few years. Major plates re-adjusting themselves I'd guess. South America, New Zealand, Indosnesia, even OZ had a nasty this year. I know Haiti's on the other side but still a lot of activity.
The western seaboard of the US has been a bit quiet though. Mmmmm
Steve from Dubbo