04-20-2025, 11:56 PM
(04-20-2025, 08:03 PM)kalianna Wrote: 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