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Dinosaur Spotting on the Island of Kauai
By Nick on August 16, 2008
Have you ever wondered where the movie Jurassic Park was filmed? Do you remember those mountains, tropical forests, open plains and sandy beaches? If it weren’t for a few disgruntled, man-eating dinosaurs, that island would be paradise on Earth, well, at least after Kiribati has gone.
I did a little searching on Google and paid a second visit to Hawaii (the first was to Waikiki beach), this time for a virtual tour of Kauai, the oldest of the main Hawaiian islands.
Kauai is a mountainous island, and is home to one of the wettest spots on earth, which, according to Wikipedia, “has eroded deep valleys in the central mountains, carving out canyons with many scenic waterfalls.”
It certainly sounds like the place for a few Hollywood movies. In fact, as well as Jurassic Park, such titles as South Pacific, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Six Days Seven Nights, King Kong and Outbreak also used Kauai as a movie location. For a complete list of movies dating back to 1934, take a look at the Kauai Film Commission.
There might not be any real dinosaurs on Kauai, but that doesn’t make you any safer. You still have to watch out for the chickens! Apparently, one of the ethnic groups that live on Kauai are the Filipinos. When they moved to Hawaii, they brought along their fighting chickens. Sadly…
1992’s Hurricane Iniki may have caused an indirect change in KauaŹ»i’s ecosystem. Some say a chicken farm was destroyed, causing all of the chickens to roam free that one may see today. (Wikipedia)
Now, without any natural predators, the chickens are numbering in their thousands! Where are those dinosaurs when you need them?
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Mark Ramsay, globetrotting from an armchair in England.
1:29 am on August 18th, 2008
If that was my island there is noway I would let it be overrun by some damn chickens! I would eat those chickens, and the ones I couldn’t eat I would cut off their heads and sell them. I don’t care how tough they think they are! It’s my island! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
5:49 pm on August 18th, 2008
Cool, a land of Chickens,who would believe a creature like that could rule the roost, rock on you chick’s sort out those people, it’s about time chickens stood up for themselves, we have been eating them for years, maybe one day they will grow to giant chickens and eat people. ONLY JOKING!, it must be very hard for the people on the island, but it is not the only island to have wild animals, rats, bats and fox’s run riot in other countries and bears and wolves in Canada. Maybe one day we will be able to stop wild animals attacking, but just go to Africa, wild animals everywhere. Excellent post Nick, top class, thanks.
1:45 am on August 19th, 2008
You guys have gone mad!
10:13 am on August 24th, 2008
Loved the post Nick. It is quite funny Thinking of all those chickens wandering about in that background
8:57 pm on April 25th, 2009
Those chickens are dinosaurs