25. LORD HOWE ISLAND, YLHI - 9 /10 .1.2009 - A restful stay at a beautiful place

Round the World Flight with HB-PON 2008/09
Rolf Martin FRIEDEN & Manfred Melloh
Thu 8 Jan 2009 17:13

"31:32.5S 159:04.8E"

Today we had our (10km - 3 hour) ride on our rented bikes and on foot to reveal an island
composed of varying aged remnants of older islands that partially joined together again
during a turbulent era on earth.


http://blog.mailasail.com/comanche.hb-pon/61/image/jpgtgQhTeWgDr.jpg

Starting from the much younger land where most residents live, and where we stayed
at our Beachcomber lodge, we passed via giant banyas, palm forests, mutton bird rookeries
& onto more ancient areas. 

We got a lot of information on birds, flora, fossils, palm, tourist industry, bush
tucker & medicine plus snippets of volcanic & colorful local history and more.

So much more to see, if you take your time, take a bike and stroll around................

An interesting site we visited this morning:

The crash site of a RAF Catalina, which attempted an emergency landing
in the lagoon at night in 1948, after having had a fuel leak.
We saw scattered remains of that airplane.
http://blog.mailasail.com/comanche.hb-pon/61/image/jpgvUxrWIsPp8.jpg



We understand that Lord Howe Island is slowly disappearing
(in millions of years from now of course) and we learned
why its sister Island have long gone & and where they were.


http://blog.mailasail.com/comanche.hb-pon/61/image/jpg95pIk2FjtT.jpg


Great time here!

Tomorrow morning we take the wings again,  and move on to Norfolk Island.