Pohoiki Farmhouse

04/28/2019

Stunning overhead view of our neighbor up the road, Fissure 8, in Leilani Estates

You can see parts of the canyon walls caving in and a huge section with a crack in it about to collapse.

03/13/2019

Before and after pics of the lava flow that took out the property around May 20, 2018. They're sort of grim, but it's fascinating and helpful to see the aftermath.

03/09/2019

Hiked to the property today. Pictures forthcoming

03/04/2019

Recent helicopter footage of the neighborhood (Feb 18, 2019). See 3:06 - 3:28 --

A month ago, a new road was been completed from the "Y" on Highway 132 across the new lava channel to the PGV Geothermal Plant. And now, some property/homeowners…

03/03/2019

Still waiting on data for our neighborhood --

HAWAIʻI ISLAND - Data collected by scientists shows the greatest thickness is in the Kapoho-area lava delta, which was measured at 919 feet.

01/25/2019

"Scientists journey to Kīlauea volcano to investigate the eruptions that shook Hawaiʻi in 2018." --

Scientists journey to Kīlauea volcano to investigate the eruptions that shook Hawaiʻi in 2018.

10/20/2018

Scraping a road through the a'a flow across red road --

PUNA, Hawaiʻi - The effort to create an emergency access road on the south-side of the Highway 137 lava flow got underway Friday.

07/28/2018

Mele for Pele. Just up the road..

06/01/2018

Before and after (3/21/2018). We prefer to remember the 'before'...

05/22/2018

We were so hoping not to have to write this.

At some point over the weekend of May 19th, Madame Pele took back her land. Our charming little farmhouse and almost the entirety of its 5 windswept acres are gone. The river of lava in the picture we posted Saturday morning turned into a torrent, and another large flow came from the north, right through the area we called ‘the orchard’, and met up with the first flow.

We are enormously grateful for an amazing, adventurous decade in the wilds of Lower Puna. We are delighted to have been able to share the property with our friends and our many guests over the years.

We are devastated by the loss, but we will move ahead with love, gratitude, and aloha. A hui hou.

Mahalo nui loa,
Arvin & Jeff