Kauai Mountains
Cauai MountainsNice Kauai Mountains up on Friday photos
This picture of the Kauai Mountains was taken by Lilla Frerichs. This is a wonderful panorama of the verdant valleys and the promises of a wonderful dail. It all began as a skipper-tracker. It' s the little things you pay to tell lies that made following the funny part of the game a pleasure.
These years of pursuing losers gave me many precious teachings about living, such as lying from all areas of my daily lives, and keep your vehicle in the parking lot at all times.
Coastal geology of Kauai
Kauaâi is the northernmost of the state and is less than 30 km to the north-east of Niâihau. Kauaâi is over 5 million years old and has an approximately round form and 220 km of varied landscape. Over 1.5 million years after the end of Kauai's main shields, the Koloa Volcanic Series, two-thirds of the east side of the volcanic archipelago, began to reappear.
On the northern, eastern and southeastern coast of Kauaâi are Koloa series caves. Remains of vulcanic chimneys generally run along the northern side of the Kauaâi and can be found in some places on both the northern and southwestern banks. Kauaâi is known for the diversity of the microclimate that prevails throughout the island: moderate areas, arid sanddune ranges and luxuriant rivers.
Kauaâi's varied climates are partly due to the island's high mountains. The mountains like the central Mt. Waiâaleâale (1,569 m) capture the humidity of the predominant trade wind and produce large quantities of precipitation and shallow run-off, which have dug gorges into the isle. Waiâaleâale is the highest peak on the islands and gets an annual mean of 11.4m of rains, much of which flows into the Alakai Swamp to the north-west.
On the northern coastline, just south of Hanalei, there are lava from the Koloa Volcanic Serie and Koloa lava form the backs of the area' s present-day sands. The coastline consists of a succession of coarse-grained, limestone sand strands, divided by cliff tops and dotted with small boulders and many inlets.
The Wailakalua ici and Waiakalua ui include large sandy areas and are the seawards ends of rocky vaults that end on a gently descending coastline. Kïlauea Pt. is situated just north of the Waiakalua area. The Makapili is situated just off the shore and western of Kïlauea Pt. made of tufa and has been partly discharged by water to an oceanarc.
Macapili is fortified with a tombolos on the only tufa on Kauaâi, the crater hill. There are several long, long distances with wonderful lime sands between the Kïlauea Pt. and Princeville in the western part, for example: The Kauapea Beach: a 914 metre long and almost 20 metre broad sandbag that merges into a Boulderstrand in Kalihiwai Bay.
Kalihiwai Bay off-shore, ~6 km eastern of Princeville, begins one of the state' s biggest shoal-reefs, where the sand coast near Kauapea merges into a boulderstrand at the western end of Kalihiwai Bay ~6 km eastern of Princeville. It stretches 480 metres off the coast and more than 3 km westward and provides moderately good shelter from strong northwesterlies.
It constricts to the west and vanishes off Princeville, where two limestone pockets and a longer sand shore line the water front cliff. Regardless, these shores are tempting tourist destinations for the beloved Princeville Gulf Reserve and coastal heartland.
Puâu Puoa Beach stretches from the western end of Princeville to the estuary of the Hanalei River and is an efficient boundary between Puâu Puoa Marsh and Hanalei Gulf, which opens up just off the northern Hanalei coast. The Hanalei is the biggest cove on Kauaâi and a favourite place for surfing.
There is a limy sandy shore in the cove, more than 3 km long and on average almost 40 metres broad in summers. Hanalei Inner Plains is a fossilized coastline that evolved during a higher ocean level between 1500 and 4000 years BP (Calhoun and Fletcher 1999).
Most of the large exposing strata of the tapered Koloa Volcanic Series lava are observable in the eastern face of the Hanalei Valley and up to 650 metres thick (Macdonald et al. 1986). Nä Palace Coastline State Park, along the northwestern shore of Kauaâi, contains some of the most remote coastlines in the state.
It stretches for more than 24 km along a coastline of steep sloping backs of knives and steep V-shaped canyons. This jagged coastline is restricted to an 18 km long footpath or boating, but the swell in the Northern Pacific prevents this possibility throughout the year. This coastline is a testament to the force created by the waves of the Northern Pacific, which can rise to heights of over 10 metres before they break into the islands with explosives.
The chalky sandy bags at the foot of the rock of NÃ are removed from Nä during the summer to unblock the boulders in summer and in winter. Bigger untouched limestone shores such as Kalalau and Nuâalolo kai, which lie along the coastline all year round, are also severely degraded in winters and springs.
Nä's extremely precipitous cliffs on the cliffs of the Pale di Pale are lined with vast expanses of flora and fauna. The flora is assisted by shallow waters that flow down from the Waiâaleâale massif to the north. Freshwater cascading in many places for centuries as a waterfall, forming a luxuriant marine landscape with bright mountain slopes dropping into the seas.
Nä from the Waimea Canyon Volcanic range was renamed after the extraordinary view of the lava shields on this rock. Exposure dips softly towards the major calderas and was exposed by a massive explosion that penetrated deep into this part of the Kauaâi Plate (Macdonald et al. 1986).
Kauaâi's western seaboard contrasts sharply with the shoreline of NÃ? NÃ? NÃ Pali, while its dramatic seaside cliffs plung escarpment abruptly into rolling, spacious limy sand shorelines in Polihale State Park on the northern-fringe of the coastal flatlands Mänä Mänä covers 16 km along the western shore and is bordered by one of the longest sandbeaches in the state, starting at Polihale and extending as far as Kekaha on the south-western part.
It stretches over 24 km and in summers reaches latitudes of over 90 metres with a thickness of up to 18 metres (Moberly and Chamberlain 1964). Mänä stretches less than 5 km up-country to the feet of old oceanic rocks from a higher level of the seal.
Mänä A Holocene accretion string plane, created by the convergent elongated northeastern sediments transported, drifted by snow waves and the tradewinds, and southeastern, drifted by summers and the tradewinds. Mänä Plain's bottom facing the sea contains a dune-cemented from moderate to well-cemented lime-thin sand, and behind the seafront, towards the inner Plain, there were a layer of sand-and-parasitic limestone, mud and clay- where they were embedded in a flat shallow lagoon.
Several areas of the coast of Mänà are surrounded by rocks and most of the uninterrupted sandy beaches are surrounded by sandy. An especially large system of sandy slopes (15 to 30 metres high) lies behind Nohili Pt., where parts of older lithium-bearing slopes have also been exposed by stormosion. Barking Sands is the largest part of the desert because of the large number of limestone granules that vibrate as the breeze moves (Macdonald et al. 1986).
The coastline from the beaches at Mänà Pt. to Makahüâ pt. at the south-west tip of Kauaâi is south-west oriented. Its general inclination to the coasts rises slightly beyond the plain Mänä; the coastline retains a soft incline up to the more steeply sloping promontories of in the north. There are long, moderate sandy, limestone beaches with a significant proportion of sandy and sedimentary areas on the west side.
Detailed materials are dispersed by westerly flows from the estuaries of large rivers such as Waimea and Hanapà "pÃ", which flow from the inner part of the islands to the coastline. Lava of renewed volcanic activity flooded much of the southern centre from Kaumakani Pt. to Makahüâ Pt. north-south chimneys extend directly along the country's main interior at Makaokahaâi Pt. and Makahüâ Pt. at the southern tip of the cay.
Nömilu Cuinder cones are located on the western shore of Makaokahaâi Pt. The cones contain a fish pond, which is supplied by a 20 hectare, 20 metre long, water well. The Hunihuni Plains extend between NomilÃ? Nomilá Nomilü and Nomilü Pt. as a mixture of tapering bassalt into the sea.
We are developing the inner level with the city and the spa ipü On the coastline there are half-moons and bags with limy sand like Pälama, ipÃ?? and ipÃ? This coastline encloses the cliffy promontory at the south tip of the isle at ipü, where a tombola stretches from ipÃ?
To the north-east of Makahüâ Pt. is a coastline that is older and more steep than the relatively cool Hunihuni. The Keoneloa Bay is located directly on the northeastern side of Makahüâ Pt. and Pleistocene aeo-lonite rocks are in the hinterland of the shore. Across Keoneloa the coastline stretches for 3 km as a wonderful, unspoilt, winding coastline known as MähÃulepüMähó³ Beach.
In this section there is the strongly escalated remainder of a calendar on the side of the Kauaâi major calendera. Further notable characteristics of MähÃulepüMähà are illuminated sanddunes, wavy EDM spots and patios as well as lime stone characteristics such as hollows and caverns, which are remnants of karst carbonated dune (Clark 1990).
To the north-east of MähÃNäwiliwiliNäwiliwili there is a gentle, variable-width shore valley that stretches from the very irregular embedding at Näwiliwili harbour and peninsula to the extreme southeast nort coast of Kauaâi at Kepuhi Pt.
The Wailua and Kealia coves, along the eastern side of Kauaâi, extend along a fairly flat coastline and are earlier coves that were replenished by sedimentary erosion (Moberly and Chamberlain 1964).