新しい島ハワイ島では最も古いコハラ山脈 (火山だがもう活動はしていない) のふもとで、百万年近く雨の浸食を受け、キラウエアやマウナ・ロアのふもと (生まれたばかりの土地) とは全く違った景観を示しています。
なお、最北のカウアイ島などは7百万年以上経っている。
車道はあるのですが、この崖をアメ車のコンパクト・レンタカーで下りる勇気はさすがの私にもなく、ツアーに頼りました。(降りていく自信はあったのですが、問題は帰りで)
Go to north by Rout 19 and turn right to Rout 240 at Honokaa town, it was a main stage of movie"Honokaa Boy" (This movies was monopolized by the Actress Chieko Baisyou, I think), this road is blocked by high cliff, almost 300m down. It is Waipio Valley. Many same kind of deep valleys are there in next 20 miles. Here, the foot of Kohara extinct Volcanoes is oldest part of the island, near 1 million years old, and has been eroded by water and wind. They showed quite different land scape from new born land Kilauea and Mauna・Loa .
It has a way to go down the valley by car but I have no courage to go by my economy class 2WD American rentacar. Yes I could go down but how to come back. So I went there by shuttle tour.
絶壁の下は、かなり長い渓谷で奥のほうにヒイラベの滝という水量は少ないが高さ400mのハワイ州で最も高い滝があります。このようにして最北のポロル渓谷までのいくつもの渓谷ができているが、ワイピオ渓谷以外は車では入れなません。
Under the great cliff there is big and long scale of valley and Hi'ilawe falls are there deeper part of the valley. The height are almost 400m, the highest water fall in the Hawaii State. Many eroded big valleys are lying here to northernmost Pololu Valley. Another valleys cannot go in by cars.
ここには現在約50人ぐらいが住んでいて、昔からの常用食タロイモを栽培している。ヒロに大被害をもたらせた1946年の津波は高さ10mにもなったそうだが、マナという霊力のお蔭で死者は出なかったそうな。
There live about 50 peoples now and making Taro potatoes, pound into paste, they become very traditional Hawaiian foods named Poi. Please try them when you'll come to Hawaii, I ・・・never again. The big Tidal waves of 10m high that brought big disaster in Hilo came here 1946, but no one dead here by the grace of magical power of this valley, Mana!.
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