07-17-2010, 04:16 PM
We tried to go during the "official" hours last week several days before the lava crossed the road and they were parking people way back at the beginning of Kalapana Vacation Lots (where the new houses have been built)and were keeping people well behind the big Kipuka where they used to park people. There were multiple busloads of chattering tourists crammed into a really small viewing area pretty far from the flow, so we didn't stay long.
I really miss being able to just drive out to the end of the road and watch the sun go down over the mountain and see the flows emerge as night falls, in relative solitude and quiet. I know this is a big tourist draw and money maker for the tour companies, but for me the whole lava experience is fundamental to why I live here, and it is as close to church as I get, so the current experience reminds me of tour groups getting led through Chartres Cathedral while some people are trying to pray.
Carol
I really miss being able to just drive out to the end of the road and watch the sun go down over the mountain and see the flows emerge as night falls, in relative solitude and quiet. I know this is a big tourist draw and money maker for the tour companies, but for me the whole lava experience is fundamental to why I live here, and it is as close to church as I get, so the current experience reminds me of tour groups getting led through Chartres Cathedral while some people are trying to pray.
Carol
Carol
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb