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Honolulu with my love.

So 🙌 today with family and adventures. From the rising of the sun, to the going down of the same the name of the Lord shall ve praised.
Psalm 113:3

Wow! Huge fountains yesterday and they closed Hwy 11 between mm 24 and 40 due to heavy tephra fall. Both north and south vents were above 1000 feet high and producing voluminous tephra spreading to the north. Golf course housing and highway 11 are being hit with tephra up to 5 inches. Plume is over 25,000 feet asl and spreading north. We were headed that way when they turned us back and had Pele's hair all over our car and porch after powerwashing the day before.

Simple view of BI

Visiting the Big Island? Which Region of the Big Island is your favorite? Do you have a favorite Landmark or Activity?

See this informative 'Guide to Visiting the Big Island' with Maps, Images, Tips & more!

https://www.shakaguide.com/article/big-island/the-ultimate-big-island-travel-guide

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(📍Papakolea // Hawaii's Big Island) 💚 There are only a handful of green sand beaches in the world (Guam, Norway, Galapagos Islands, and HAWAII) so this really is one unique beach.

And it’s an adventure to get to it! Located down at South Point (the southernmost point on the Big Island AND the US), you’ll either need to do a long, dusty, hot hike along the coast or pay for the “local shuttle” at the trailhead.

If you do the hike, be prepared for about 6 miles round trip in extremely windy and hot conditions. There is NO shade (even at the beach) and while it’s not much of an incline, I would take a gallon of water per person and big shade hats.

Here’s the deal about the shuttle…it’s controversial. It’s technically illegal, but it’s allowed to operate. The land is owned by the Department of Hawaiian Homelands so the guys who run the shuttles (all native Hawaiian) feel like they have the right to do what they’re doing. It’s controversial because all the offroading has torn up the land and many feel that it has “desecrated” an important Hawaiian cultural site.

Whatever you decide…it’s $20/person and the driver takes you out and waits for about an hour and brings you back. It takes about 30 minutes each way to drive. And of course, it’s completely uninsured ; )

However you do it, once you get there, it’s pretty spectacular. The beach is down in a caldera and you have to climb a little bit to get down to the sand.

I go back and forth between whether the sand looks green or not. It definitely depends on how the light hits it. And while it’s not bright LIME green, it for sure has green undertones and kind of sparkles.

And unlike the black sand beach at Punalu’u or the black and red sand beaches on Maui which all have a thick, coarse sand (almost like really tiny pebbles), the sand at Papakolea is so smooth and soft under your feet.

Come and see!

It's amazing!

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