Photos 3, page 14
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Kula Kai
| March 11, 2007 |
| The morning after the Road to the Sea trip, Ray and I went to look at a house site he was working with on Kona Kai Blvd. in Kula Kai View Estates (magenta line), right next door to where we were the day before (red line). While there, we stumbled upon a spelunking organization called Kula Kai Caverns which, we discovered, was run by a guy that Ray knew. We talked for awhile then the guy took us into the beginnings of the cavern where we sat and talked some more. The caverns are made up of lava tubes through which hot lava used to flow down the hill from Mauna Loa to the coast. CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE |
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| From the top of Kula Kai Blvd., those two humps on the coast are where we were yesterday |
| Kula Kai Blvd. runs parallel to Road to the Sea but doesn't go all the way down to the coast |
| This is one of the entrances to Kula Kai Caverns |
| Here's the proprietor waving to us from the hut next to the cavern entrance |
| A junk sculpture next to the hut |
| Some skulls on the desk in the hut |
| Entering the cavern. There was some lighting available in the first few hundred feet |
| There is a wooden platform with benches at the end of the lit area. |
| The cavern continues This shot is with a flash |
| This shot is without the flash, using only the light at the platform area. |
| Ray on the left, the proprietor on the right with the light under him and two friends of his, a couple with a 3 or 4 year old boy. |
| The boy, at one point, got up and took Ray by the hand and led him off into the cavern. |
| At the cavern entrance, there is a map, both plan and profile, of the cavern system. So far, they have mapped over 20 miles of lava tubes here. |
| On the way back to Ray's house, we came across this sculpture in somebody's front yard. It's made of car bumpers... |
| This is Ellen's and Robin's haul from yesterday on the beach. |
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