Pohoiki in the Past Tense

[MyManao]

What other options are there?  Iʻd just like to go for a dip in the ocean without taking my life in my hands.

We are kinda short on that sorta thing.. we are on an active volcano, with a shoreline that is constantly collapsing.. it's the nature of the thing, and natural calms are hard to come by.

Kalapana's shoreline was what it was because of the land.. there's a horst, which is a geologic form loosely defined as an area of the earth's surface which is raised relative to surrounding land, that is makai of the land Kalapana is built on. Where Kalapana is falling and created that gentle slope into the sea because the horst doesn't allow the land to calve off. Otherwise our shoreline is predominately cliffs.

So.. to Pohoiki. It changed, and it would be hard to think we could just sweep away the sand and gravel and have it all back. The sand is going to keep coming as the faces of the newly emplaced lava flows up current of it calve off and create more sand. Seriously, it will fill in over and over if it really were cleared out..

So.. hard to put in a nice domesticated beach.. but maybe with some encouragement.. build an artificial reef on the Kapoho side of Pohoiki to trap that sand as it comes in and built a peninsula to create a protected bay?

As to boating.. I have said my piece here..

https://punaweb.org/forum/showthread.php?tid=22810&pid=339326#pid339326

[MarkD]

Ahalanui is never coming back.

We live on an active volcano.. ie things change.. and nothing 'comes back'

And besides, there are so many other options.. better options.. going forward. Why would anyone want Pohoiki back?

Same reason many of us would love to have the original Kalapana shoreline back.  Swimming and surfing opportunities for East Hawaii residents.  Unfortunate to say that the 90-plus mile shoreline from Southpoint to Waipio Valley is one of the most inhospitable tropical shorelines in the world for ocean recreation for people of average or poor swimming ability.

[Ccat]

Ahalanui is never coming back.

We live on an active volcano.. ie things change.. and nothing 'comes back'

And besides, there are so many other options.. better options.. going forward. Why would anyone want Pohoiki back?

Same reason many of us would love to have the original Kalapana shoreline back.  Swimming and surfing opportunities for East Hawaii residents.  Unfortunate to say that the 90-plus mile shoreline from Southpoint to Waipio Valley is one of the most inhospitable tropical shorelines in the world for ocean recreation for people of average or poor swimming ability.

YES!   We know that sand will keep filling it in.  So you just have to budget for maintenance.  East Hawaii needs safe ocean swimmimg again.

[MyManao]

East Hawaii needs safe ocean swimmimg again.

"Needs?" Say what? East Hawaii don't need more than nature gives us. If you want more/different.. methinks you should move to where those things are. 

People come to Hawaii and cry.. Hawaii ain't like blah blah blah.. and not a one of them realizes how screwed up that is. If you don't like a place don't come.. or leave. But no.. Americans shit on everything they touch. Make it my way or I will throw a sissy fit..