03-20-2008, 04:35 PM
This morning we ventured to the end of the road, told the officers that we were residents and traveled 100 yards further to park by the lua circle.
Pahoehoe had come East across the road and makai thru the kipuka. We could walk on the day-old Pahoehoe for about 200 feet before it became too hot to walk on. A small breakout behind me sent me back to the pavement. A new officer came by to have us more accurately define our claim of residency and showed us the way out.
We drove to Kaimu and started walking to the flow via the coastal Route. It was a somewhat rigorous 2 hour hike. We passed what we assumed was the county viewing site, finally arriving at the worlds newest beach and three seperate flows into the ocean...awesome.
After we had been there 20 minutes or so, several "officials" arrived at the viewing site and fervently beckoned us to come over to their location and began to admonish us for being in a "restricted area"; that we could be subject to arrest. I told them that there were no signs or indication that we had passed,to designate the area as off limits.
We left after taking our scoldings with an experience of a lifetime.
Mahalo Pele.
Pahoehoe had come East across the road and makai thru the kipuka. We could walk on the day-old Pahoehoe for about 200 feet before it became too hot to walk on. A small breakout behind me sent me back to the pavement. A new officer came by to have us more accurately define our claim of residency and showed us the way out.
We drove to Kaimu and started walking to the flow via the coastal Route. It was a somewhat rigorous 2 hour hike. We passed what we assumed was the county viewing site, finally arriving at the worlds newest beach and three seperate flows into the ocean...awesome.
After we had been there 20 minutes or so, several "officials" arrived at the viewing site and fervently beckoned us to come over to their location and began to admonish us for being in a "restricted area"; that we could be subject to arrest. I told them that there were no signs or indication that we had passed,to designate the area as off limits.
We left after taking our scoldings with an experience of a lifetime.
Mahalo Pele.