Into the blowhole at South Point.
Views of Kaalaiki road - the less-traveled scenic route between Pahala and Na’alehu.
I’d never been here before yesterday. I spent about 5 hours on the 10 mile stretch up the hill out of Na’alehu exploring the area.
Going south through Ka’u
The smoking Pali (cliffs) from last Monday’s lava tour.
At the cinder quarry on Ocean View’s upper grid multiple lava flows from thousands of years ago are visible as belts of color in the rock.
We walk out of Malama Market in Ocean View and this woman is standing there with a Jackson’s Chameleon all like “Look what I found on my car!”, so I ask if I can take a photo of it and she goes “Here! It’s yours!” and she puts it on my shoulder. So now I have groceries and a Chameleon.
I nerded out for a bit and took a plethora of photos. We brought him back to the greenhouse at Purp’s place down the hill where he’s been snatching flies around the pencil tree since yesterday. Jackson’s Chameleons have become increasingly more common in Ocean View in the past 5 years and do pretty well in the small forest patches in the lava desert.
So that happened.
So I’m hanging with Purple out in Ocean View for a few days. His housemates have been showing me around. This was looking down at southpoint 20 miles away from the middle of Ocean View’s upper grid on our way down to the Kahuku cave system.
Kawaihae Sunset
Offshore Kohala at sunset.
Near the end of January I was up in Kohala for a few days camping around like I do. This was sunrise looking west out of my tent up at about 3,000 feet.
