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Wow, what a weekend! Saturday I went with 10 guys to the Waipio Valley (where they filmed part of Jurassic Park) and we hiked through the clouds, huge plants, bamboo, and steep ledges. It was so cloudy that we could hardly see more than 20 feet in front of us until we got over part of the valley ledge. We waited and waited looking for this waterfall and then the clouds cleared and we saw a waterfall that probably fell over 2000 feet! It was spectacular! The clouds quickly covered up the view, but not before I got a pic. .jpg)
Sunday was another adventure to the Southern most part of the United States. We traveled to the south point of the island and then
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we hiked over 2 miles (in flip flops) to go to this green sand beach! It was extremely soft, but still really grainy. It made no sence. Quite an amazing sight! Sunday night I was out talking with some people and we kept seeing flashes over and over, but the people who had been here for 1-2 years said they had never seen lightning here, so it couldn't be lightning because we weren't hearing thunder. But we looked northeast and we saw lightning. So I stayed up until midnight watching the storm move from NorthEast to NorthWest truly hoping for rain. The storm moved around us, but today in the mail, my buddy Angie mailed me some rain in a spray bottle from Bellingham. So I got the rain I really desired...just in a different form than I had expected. Isn't that just the way that God works? I wish I could post more pictures, but I have limited space. It was amazing!
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I told you I would look up why the sand was green, and here is a link to the answer:
http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/frequent_questions/grp5/question1428.html
I'm glad my package arrived in such a timely way. God likes to do that, doesn't he.
That link didn't work when I posted it, so here is what the page said:
The beach formed by the erosion and concentration of olivine crystals derived from the surrounding cone. The volcanic cone is Puu Mahana and it is a tuff ring (a type of volcano formed by the interaction of magma and shallow groundwater). The cone is associated with the Southwest Rift Zone of Mauna Loa (although the cone is not right on the rift). Mauna Loa flows can contain abundant olivine crystals. As ocean waves crashed against the coast they wore away at the cone and made a small bay along the coast. The waves also removed the lighter grains of sand (made of volcanic ash) leaving the denser olivine crystals behind to form the beach.
so you went to south point... did you make the jump yet?
you need some Teva's. what size feet do you have? They are like sandals and tennis shoes in one.
some of my favorite memories of Kona are when it rains. on the grass in front of the dorms we would use the hill like a slip-n-slide when it rains. It is amazing. some of the boys would get boggie boards too. I will pray for rain.
when is your kona konqwest?
have fun!
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