{"id":635,"date":"2009-02-15T14:32:49","date_gmt":"2009-02-15T20:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/2009\/02\/15\/big-island-landscapes\/"},"modified":"2009-02-15T14:32:49","modified_gmt":"2009-02-15T20:32:49","slug":"big-island-landscapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?p=635","title":{"rendered":"Big island landscapes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=puako,+HI&amp;sll=19.541673,-155.665283&amp;sspn=1.555559,1.955566&amp;g=puako,+big+island+hawaii&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=20.264774,-155.731201&amp;spn=1.555209,1.955566&amp;t=h&amp;z=9&amp;output=embed&amp;s=AARTsJpzNd8Gamwf_5jwWmB62GEWwJKpKw\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"350\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"425\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<small><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;source=embed&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=puako,+HI&amp;sll=19.541673,-155.665283&amp;sspn=1.555559,1.955566&amp;g=puako,+big+island+hawaii&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=20.264774,-155.731201&amp;spn=1.555209,1.955566&amp;t=h&amp;z=9\" style=\"color: #0000ff; text-align: left\">View Larger Map<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m spending the week with my parents and nieces in Puako on the Big Island (aka &#8220;Hawai&#8217;i island&#8221; but no one ever calls that because it&#8217;s confusing that part of the state has the same name as the whole state.)\u00a0 I love looking at the satellite view because just looking out the window doesn&#8217;t make it quite so obvious that the island is mostly volcano and literally steaming, smoking and (gently) erupting at this very moment.<\/p>\n<p>The dramatic landscape makes for dramatic climate shifts as well.\u00a0 I flew into Hilo yesterday which is the middle of lush, rains-every-day jungle.\u00a0 Over the course of a few hours we drove through chilly windy highlands, forest, and ranchland, and are now on the &#8216;dry side&#8217; of the island which is rocky and scrubby like Arizona.\u00a0 Furthermore, there was snow visible on mauna kea off in the distance.<\/p>\n<p>These photos are in chronological order, east to west.\u00a0 I couldn&#8217;t get any photos of the snow-capped peak because the zoom-lense on my camera has begun to misbehave badly.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/bigislandlandscape1.jpg\" alt=\"Big Island landscape 1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/bigislandlandscape2.jpg\" alt=\"Big Island landscape 2\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/bigislandlandscape3.jpg\" alt=\"Big Island landscape 3\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/bigislandlandscape4.jpg\" alt=\"Big Island landscape 4\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/bigislandlandscape5.jpg\" alt=\"Big Island landscape 5\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/bigislandlandscape6.jpg\" alt=\"Big Island landscape 6\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View Larger Map I&#8217;m spending the week with my parents and nieces in Puako on the Big Island (aka &#8220;Hawai&#8217;i island&#8221; 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