Lanai Lookout
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canyonwalkerOahu travelog #18
Koko Head, HI - Mon, 27 Dec 2021, 4:30pm
After visiting the Halona Blowhole and Sandy Beach in our last-minute bonus round late this afternoon we made time for one more outdoors stop, at Lanai Lookout. Here instead of basalt cliffs there are tilted layers of eroded rock. People hop the guardrail and clamber down the cliffs.
There are great views out here.
Behind us is Koko Head, another mountain/crater kind of like Diamond Head Crater, but on a smaller scale.
The rocks down here on the lower slope are interesting. They're layered and eroded, like sandstone. But I doubt they are sandstone, given that we're standing atop a 20,000' tall volcano in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. I believe instead this is tuff, volcanic ash, that was deposited in layers.
As we headed back up the slope we saw a wedding party coming down. I captured a shot of the newlyweds with Koko Head in the background. It reminds me of the last time we were in Hawaii, 4 years ago, for a destination wedding of our friends Beth and John.
Koko Head, HI - Mon, 27 Dec 2021, 4:30pm
After visiting the Halona Blowhole and Sandy Beach in our last-minute bonus round late this afternoon we made time for one more outdoors stop, at Lanai Lookout. Here instead of basalt cliffs there are tilted layers of eroded rock. People hop the guardrail and clamber down the cliffs.
There are great views out here.
Behind us is Koko Head, another mountain/crater kind of like Diamond Head Crater, but on a smaller scale.
The rocks down here on the lower slope are interesting. They're layered and eroded, like sandstone. But I doubt they are sandstone, given that we're standing atop a 20,000' tall volcano in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. I believe instead this is tuff, volcanic ash, that was deposited in layers.
As we headed back up the slope we saw a wedding party coming down. I captured a shot of the newlyweds with Koko Head in the background. It reminds me of the last time we were in Hawaii, 4 years ago, for a destination wedding of our friends Beth and John.
