{"id":2520,"date":"2013-05-13T23:58:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T03:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/?p=2520"},"modified":"2013-05-14T13:29:32","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T17:29:32","slug":"the-drive-out-to-laparouse-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/?p=2520","title":{"rendered":"The Drive out to LaParouse Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As t was navigating the narrow road out to LaParouse Bay from Makena Beach, Marianne took some great shots with her camera, starting just east of Makena Beach:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/wpid-108_7087.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/wpid-108_7087.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The road crosses a few miles of broken lava fields from what was probably the last volcanic eruption on Maui, well over a thousand years ago.\u00a0 But, it is still a barren landscape because this area is extremely dry:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/wpid-108_7090.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"108_7090.JPG\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/wpid-108_7090.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/wpid-108_7093.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"108_7093.JPG\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/wpid-108_7093.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/wpid-108_7095.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"108_7095.JPG\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/wpid-108_7095.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/wpid-108_7098.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"108_7098.JPG\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/wpid-108_7098.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The area around LaParouse Bay is a bit more green, but only where the 3-4 residences are located. The rest is pretty barren:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/wpid-108_7101.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"108_7101.JPG\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/wpid-108_7101.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/wpid-108_7103.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"108_7103.JPG\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/wpid-108_7103.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the return towards Makena Beach, we got a good view of the beach and also Molokini Island:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/wpid-108_7110.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/wpid-108_7110.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/wpid-108_7107.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/wpid-108_7107.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Did any of you watch the last couple seasons of Stargate SG-1? (After Jack O&#8217;Neill was promoted to General). To me, this profile view of Molokini Island could have been used as the source for the side profile view of the Auri invasion vessels. Just put a big glowing blue orb on the cavity on the left end&#8230;\u00a0 I wonder&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"post_sig\">Posted from my Nexus 7 using WordPress for Android<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As t was navigating the narrow road out to LaParouse Bay from Makena Beach, Marianne took some great shots with her camera, starting just east of Makena Beach: The road crosses a few miles of broken lava fields from what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/?p=2520\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hawaii-2013","category-maui"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2521,"href":"https:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520\/revisions\/2521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}