06-08-2018, 02:58 AM
Going completely around the island yesterday on our mission to pick-up the shelter shed security doors, I was struck, maybe for the first time, at the flow patterns you can see throughout Kau & Kona areas.
Most all of my time here in Hawaii`i, and truth be told, most all of my life, Kilauea flows have flowed in a fairly direct downhill manner at a fairly leisurely pace. The most "wandering" from my time here had been the 2014-15 Pahoa flow.
The speed and volume of this current flow is way outside of my lifetime, but as we traveled the older flows, still very visible from just outside of my lifetime to over 2 centuries ago, you could see the massive wide wandering flows that must have kicked downhill...
My musing started at the summit, a place I have become very familiar with over the years of study and work, and the changes very apparent even from the Highway. I thought of all of the native creatures, ones that I have gotten to know, exposed to the magnitude of ash & VOG, then I realized, before the Kau Desert Trail, at the Nene sign pullout, that this truly is the environment they evolved in.
Every species here had to adapt to this cycle of creation, of mountain building.
This is Hawaii`i, in its` unique, primal form.
Most all of my time here in Hawaii`i, and truth be told, most all of my life, Kilauea flows have flowed in a fairly direct downhill manner at a fairly leisurely pace. The most "wandering" from my time here had been the 2014-15 Pahoa flow.
The speed and volume of this current flow is way outside of my lifetime, but as we traveled the older flows, still very visible from just outside of my lifetime to over 2 centuries ago, you could see the massive wide wandering flows that must have kicked downhill...
My musing started at the summit, a place I have become very familiar with over the years of study and work, and the changes very apparent even from the Highway. I thought of all of the native creatures, ones that I have gotten to know, exposed to the magnitude of ash & VOG, then I realized, before the Kau Desert Trail, at the Nene sign pullout, that this truly is the environment they evolved in.
Every species here had to adapt to this cycle of creation, of mountain building.
This is Hawaii`i, in its` unique, primal form.