Easter Island Day 2

Claudio Cristino took us to his current dig where he and some British archeologists are looking at these red scoria "top knots" that some of the moai have on their heads were quarried.


Wild horses are everywhere. Downtown in the village, along every roadside, and here, just hanging out on the cliffs above the ocean among the destroyed ahu and moai. Notice the moai head in the lower right corner.


As we walked along the cliff, these isolated rain showers appeared over the water. Very cool.


At the crater rim of an extinct volcano, we could see into the water-filled caldera. It was the most amazing quilt of green grasses.


And finally, we made it to one of the more famous ahus with seven moai restored to their standing position. They are impressive.


JABDIP (just another beautiful day in paradise, an old Bob Gourley saying from Guam)