Thursday, June 16, 2011

Easter Island



Easter Island's runway is long enough to allow a 747 to land.  The runway extends from one side of the island to the other. 


 Easter Island's only village


 Island view


 Easter Island's tiny companions


Petroglyphs of the Birdman cult


 No blog is complete without a sunset


 A mile-wide cauldron - the island's water supply trapped in an extinct volcano crater


Detail of crater lake: a patchwork of reed islands







 A statue in progress, being carved from surrounding stone



 Rano Raraku, a small extinct volcano.  Its slopes host about 400 statues in various stages of completion.


A chorus line of 15 big moai.


Make that 17 moai...


 Lunch with our hosts


Moai come to Bondi

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