The Floor is LAVA!
Apr. 16th, 2022 04:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerHawaii April Travelog #19
Waikoloa, HI - Tue, 12 Apr, 2022, 2:30pm
From moments before we landed on the Island of Hawaii one big thing struck me: The floor is lava! At most airports the runway is surrounded by close cropped grass. At Kona it's surrounded by lava. You're landing on pavement over a lava field.
"Lava, everywhere" described the drive from Kona up to Waikoloa Village, too. Whereas a drive through a rural area in most other places would mean driving past miles of farms or maybe just weeds, here it was miles and miles of lava flows. Basically the only place where the floor is not lava is where modern humans scraped some of it away and built something on top of it.
Waikoloa, HI - Tue, 12 Apr, 2022, 2:30pm
From moments before we landed on the Island of Hawaii one big thing struck me: The floor is lava! At most airports the runway is surrounded by close cropped grass. At Kona it's surrounded by lava. You're landing on pavement over a lava field.
"Lava, everywhere" described the drive from Kona up to Waikoloa Village, too. Whereas a drive through a rural area in most other places would mean driving past miles of farms or maybe just weeds, here it was miles and miles of lava flows. Basically the only place where the floor is not lava is where modern humans scraped some of it away and built something on top of it.
