One idea was to grab a huge pile of chopped up lava rock from the road, lay it over the flows and level it to use as a base. The equipment is a highly sensitive seismic instrument that measures teensy tiny earth movements, and the reason for placing it inside a cement box is because there's reason to believe that wind would actually be detected. We set up shims, posts nailed to the boxes so that they were level. We brought all the tools and wood with us. Photograph courtesy of The International Year of the Ocean Home Page, a publication of the NOAA Home Page Design and Construction Company.
Hawksbills are turtles with beautiful red and auburn shells.
Japan and the Dominican Republic still harvest them in large numbers. I beleive, despite the fact they are endangered. There were only 57 or so turtles nesting in Hawaii this year, and 53 or so are on the Big Island, the rest are on Maui and Lanai. The Park has a program tagging turtles and making sure that their eggs aren't eaten by mongoose, wild pigs, or feral cats. Inc. All rights reserved.