This week’s Sunday Stills challenge theme is ‘Fences.’ See more responses here.
Here on the Big Island, fences tend to be of two kinds – chainlink and painted wood. Walls and hedges are possibly more popular. Walls don’t need as much maintenance and hedges fill in easily all by themselves, though they do require trimming if they’re not to take over.
These fences are ones that have seen hard times. The top photo is the chainlink fence around Upolu Airport. Someone managed to take out a section of this recently. Not sure whether they got distracted or were going too fast and lost control, but several sections of fence got destroyed. Judging from the trail of damage, the vehicle can’t have fared well either.
The other two photos are of fences around Kohala Ranch, a subdivision in Kawaihae. These photos were taken after August’s big brush fire. The tidy white fences surrounding the property have been rather battered. Fixing the damage will be a significant task, though I think most of the folks living there were probably happy to have been spared more than this largely aesthetical issue.
Graham's Island 
Great choice. Definitely makes you wonder what happened.
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The chainlink fence was an odd one, that’s for sure.
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Even if there was bush around, they’d still stick out. I can hear the owners now “Save the fences”
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It’s pretty interesting to see the scene from the air. The area is very dry and so the dry grasses burned, but the houses are surrounded by small areas of greenery that are liberally irrigated, so even where the fire went around the property, the houses themselves were undamaged. Well, except for smoke damage that is, and some of that was quite extensive.
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There have been houses condemned due to smoke damage from the house next door burning down
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It does get into everything!
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The white fences make quite a statement and you’re right, despite it being a low-scale casualty, it’ll take some time to mend.
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I assume they’ll just rebuild with the same kind of fences, but that’s still a lot of materials to be gathered and labor to rebuild them all.
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Destruction by man and nature at its best, Graham! I remember seeing a lot of lava rock fences when we were there. I have t few photos of them but didn’t include them this time. I’m sure they stand the test of time unless another eruption occurs.
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There’s a lot of lava rock as you know, but I consider them walls rather than fences. They are a good option and there’s lots of it about!
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That’s a good point. I did see a few short walls near the visitors center at Volcanoes NP.
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They’re everywhere when you look!
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