Waimea Canyon

[urbpan]

Waimea Canyon is the biggest canyon in the Pacific, carved by the incessant rain over the past 6 million years or so falling on Mount Waialeale. It's up to 3500 feet deep, ten miles long, and a mile across in it's widest parts.



Turistas.








Precarious hiking! Watch that first step.


Some find it pretty easy going, though.


Taken with my little camera's "digital zoom" this picture looks like I used an Instamatic in 1967.

Comments

[dougmander.livejournal.com]

Beautiful! I had no idea it existed.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Me neither! Kauai is a beautiful place regardless, but to have a natural wonder like that there really makes it an amazing island.

[gryfindormia.livejournal.com]

*eyes all googly* Wow... That looks a lot like southern Utah, except for the bits of green at the bottom. In Utah they would be crackly and brown and fire.

[drhoz.livejournal.com]

i am astonished - i had no idea there was anything like thaty in the Pacific.

Alas the park did not provider sniper rifles for picking off the feral goats.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

There is, however, hunting allowed in the park--for the goats, wild boars, and relatively recently introduced deer.

[drhoz.livejournal.com]

ok, goats I can understand, shipwreck staple, etc. But what demented fucktard introduced deers and wild boar?

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

The boars are probably descendants of the pigs brought by Polynesian settlers, while the deer were introduced from Oregon in 1961 by the Hawaii Fish and Game division. That makes sense, right? There aren't enough animals to hunt on this island paradise--let's bring some from elsewhere! I'm not against hunting or fishing, but the idea of stocking the wilderness with animals to kill seems patently absurd to me.

http://www.rarehawaii.org/deerpage/deer.htm

[drhoz.livejournal.com]

ah, of course. feral pigs, not wild boars then.

1961??? great zombie jesus - were they that stupid????

[bellelvsbeast.livejournal.com]

Beautiful as usual...;) Love the cute goats! :)

[drhoz.livejournal.com]

given the goats are probably why the canyon walls are so bare, I wouldn't get too fond of them.

[bellelvsbeast.livejournal.com]

Well...yea...