Easter Island, Chile

                11 July 2010     Click here to see videos

                (Click any thumbnail image below to see a full-size image.)
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Cafe holding area.  Plane got in at 0235.  We waited here for several hours... 
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Easter Island surf.
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Easter Island surf.
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Quarry from a distance where the Moai were carved.
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Moai.  Note that they are facing away from the sea.  (Can't see the sea in this image but it it to the right.)
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Moai.  Look carefully and you will see the stones under the front of each Moai since the bases are carved so that each Moai would be leaning forward without the stones.
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One of our group and susan
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Moai and rainbow.
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Stones for "hats"
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Full-sky rainbow...  My camera could not get all of it in one shot.
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Susan and Moai
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Rainbow
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Rano Raraku.  "Extinct volcano" where the Moai were carved.
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Moai base.  It is not flat.  It is curved.  I took this shot to remind me since it is essential to one of the theories on how they were moved.
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Moai partially carved and still in the quarry.  Might have been abandoned because of "blemishes", i.e., hard stones that could not be cut that would have appeared as warts on the finished image.
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Slid downhill into holes in the ground so that carving could be completed.
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Moai at Airport.


Copyright 2010 Howard C. Anderson
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