Wherever you are along Waikiki beach you can see the walls of Diamond Head. During the day the changing angles of sunlight make the walls seem to glow with different colours. This is one of the craters that were part of the huge series of volcanic eruptions that made the island of Oahu. Diamond Head is one of the youngest, formed about 450,000 years ago. Its Hawaiian name is Le'ahi (Tuna fin). It got its English name because some sailors, early in the 19th century, thought that the calcite crystals they found here were diamonds. The crater is a National Park and you enter it through a tunnel. A small military area is restricted. We didn't go in and hike to the lookout, the Oldies are not that fit any more, but we did drive all around it. If you look carefully just across the road on the middle right of the last image (from a brochure) you can see a small lighthouse. Of course we stopped there; pictures tomorrow.
Labels: beach, Hawaii
# posted by Bart Bear @ 11:27 am
