Good report.
I was in a JEDEC meeting on the KONA coast. nice man made sand beach.
Remember winter storms are likely as the Pacific runs into cold air from
Alaska and sends it southwards. Good about that, it creates more north
and north west shore waves. These drive shells landward.
So if you can put up with the rain and lack of people if raining ?! - might
be fruitful.
Much has changed in the 'southern' beaches of the big island - now more
rock.
Flows have eaten up highways and beaches.
Before planning on getting there by this way - find out if the road is open.
If closed - it might present you with more shelling. But turning around
is best be planned.
A temporary road might be complete though the overflow region. Real
time news
is needed.
Good luck with the tickets, and shelling!
Martin
Winston Barney wrote:
> Doug,
>
> It's been at least 15 years since my last trip to Hawaii, but I'll chip in
> anyway. On Maui, there was a nice reef on Maalaea Bay where I collected nice
> Cyp. c. caputophidii and a couple of C. isabella controversa, Drup morum,
> Morula granulata, Nerita picea, Littorina pintado, Thais intermedia, and
> others. At the harbor in Lahaina I found a huge caputophdii under a rock, in
> 6 inches.
> There was not much beach collecting on the west side of Lanai, but we found
> a number of cones on the north-east coast (and Moray eels, too). At the time
> (1984) there was only one hotel on the island, housing about a dozen guests.
> We had to rent a jeep to travel the road down to the beach - top speed about
> 5 mph.
> There's (was?) a great black-sand beach on the south east side of the Big
> Island. I wasn't able to shell there -- too many visitors, but it's worth
> seeing.
>
> Happy shelling,
>
> Winston Barney
> Fort Worth, TX
>
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