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Green Sands Beach!
Veteran's Day seemed the ideal day to take the mondo Mauna Loa 4WD car to South Point to visit the famous and off-the-beaten-trail Green Sands Beach. I'll probably never go to a beach in mid-November again in my life.
My weak attempt to keep sand from getting into my wounds. Ultimately, the plan failed.
Green sands! And plenty of tourists. The green sand is weathered olivine from basaltic phenocrysts, and it's heavier than black sand (basalt grains). It is preferentially sieved by the waves and washes up on this beach.
There's me, sitting at the top of the beach, reading Lucretius' On the Nature of the Universe. It's a good read - I recommend it. He has some funky ideas, like that things that are pleasurable to our senses have smooth, round atom shapes while things that are sticky, smelly, or gross have rough and jagged atom shapes. However, some things, like sea water, can have a mix of atom shapes because it is fluid (smooth shapes) but also salty (rough shapes). Trippy....
My weak attempt to keep sand from getting into my wounds. Ultimately, the plan failed.
Green sands! And plenty of tourists. The green sand is weathered olivine from basaltic phenocrysts, and it's heavier than black sand (basalt grains). It is preferentially sieved by the waves and washes up on this beach.
There's me, sitting at the top of the beach, reading Lucretius' On the Nature of the Universe. It's a good read - I recommend it. He has some funky ideas, like that things that are pleasurable to our senses have smooth, round atom shapes while things that are sticky, smelly, or gross have rough and jagged atom shapes. However, some things, like sea water, can have a mix of atom shapes because it is fluid (smooth shapes) but also salty (rough shapes). Trippy....
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