Sunday, March 27, 2011

The scenery of the big island


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We toured the island today. The beauty is incredable. The area of lava and the resulting black sand beach is part of the 1994 flow that destroyed the village that stood here. Few houses remain. The flow, as if by some divine hand, came down the mountain to within yards of the ocean then made a 90 degree left turn to engulf the villiage then turned again to fall into the sea. Fortunaatly the lava was very slow moving and no one was injured.

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