OK, so after all the people we are back to the landscape. And you might get bored seeing lava flows. They are all over the Hawaiian Islands, because volcanoes are what formed the islands in the first place. Do you remember my photographs of the fishers - the two young men and a woman? Well, this lava flow was on the west side of the island of Maui on the road we took to get to the fishers. What a stunning landscape! This lava flowed down the Haleakala volcano all the way to the sea. I am having trouble coming up with the date of this lava flow. It is between 500 and 1000 years old, as best as I can determine.
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Doesn't seem possible that there is any vegetation at all! betsey
Apparently the lava is, believe it or not, a good source of nutrients for vegetation. I thought that it took a lot of years before the vegetation actually starts growing, but I have read that on some kinds of lava flows, vegetation can show up in as little as a few years. Wow.
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