As a laughably strong wind blew me off the narrow boardwalk above First Bog in Pu’u Kukui Preserve I sank calf deep into black mud. Some experts estimate that each foot of bog here represents about 10,000 years of vegetative growth, so I had just stepped back—literally— into prehistory. Which seemed appropriate in this eerie landscape reminiscent of something out of Jurassic Park. And given that barely any...
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