Black sand, white pole holders
Between Kailua Kona Airport and Kekaha Kai State Park is a stretch of coastline heavy on lava and aircraft coming in to land, but light on vegetation and people.
There’s a fair smattering of black sand to be found in little coves and one proper black sand beach at Makole’a (below).
In several places, white plastic tubes can be seen wedged or cemented in to the lava (above). They’re fishing pole holders and are a common sight on most of the island’s coastline.
And then there are the usual features of old lava flows by the ocean including blow holes and fractured lava tubes where the ocean surges in and out again (right).
It looked very barren there after travelling from Hilo last January. Very striking landscape though, and has a beauty of its own!
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It is barren and I’m not sure I’d want to live in a landscape that was all like that. But the great thing here is you don’t have to go far to see something very different.
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Good to know, and yes, we needed a month to explore everything we wanted. Hope to be back in 2019…not in a hurry with the volcano doing its business now.
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Hopefully, the volcano will settle down before the end of this year, though who know where the next flow might pop up.
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