08-21-2009, 04:34 AM
I am not sure what removing the gate would accomplish insofar as "access" is concerned. There is nowhere to park anywhere throughout the KBL area. Anyone can walk in there right now as far as I know. Grap your mask and fins and towel and go in and swim. The problem is wanting to bring in a car load of stuff and there is nowhere to park or alight without being on private property.
Here's another facet of the "access" to Kapoho Bay. The state owns land on the bay and has done and shows no intention of doing anything to provide access. This is where someone bulldozed a road through the a`a and vehicles now enter via the lighthouse road and congregate by the Champagne Pond.
I fail to see how removing the gate will do anything except create litigation and traffic problems. For the time and expense of solving that situation DLNR and the state could consider creating Kapoho Bay Park with access from the lighthouse road. Parking, bathrooms, picnic tables. Will DNLR do this? Not bloody likely. Puna is so far off their radar it does not exist.
I do understand that the gate is resented. I just do not see how it's removal would solve anything.
Here's another facet of the "access" to Kapoho Bay. The state owns land on the bay and has done and shows no intention of doing anything to provide access. This is where someone bulldozed a road through the a`a and vehicles now enter via the lighthouse road and congregate by the Champagne Pond.
I fail to see how removing the gate will do anything except create litigation and traffic problems. For the time and expense of solving that situation DLNR and the state could consider creating Kapoho Bay Park with access from the lighthouse road. Parking, bathrooms, picnic tables. Will DNLR do this? Not bloody likely. Puna is so far off their radar it does not exist.
I do understand that the gate is resented. I just do not see how it's removal would solve anything.
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