Questions about Orchid Isle Estates (aka "Glenwood Gardens") (friendly, suggestion)

[Rust Never Sleeps]

Originally Posted by whtviper1

Uh - it isn't.

Yep, Washington state and Alaska both have temperate rainforest.

[Jungjohann]

Originally Posted by grow925

this is the ONLY ONLY rainforest in the united states, and it makes me sick to hear people wanting to remove the beauty.

Folks in Hana are going to be a little huhu to hear that

[85rx-7gsl-se]

Originally Posted by Rust Never Sleeps

Yep, Washington state and Alaska both have temperate rainforest.

Plus Puerto Rico has a rain forest.

[Rust Never Sleeps]

Originally Posted by 85rx-7gsl-se

Plus Puerto Rico has a rain forest.

Puerto Rico also gifted Hawaii with it's special little rainforest frog I considered P.R. but it isn't in the United States, it's a U.S. territory with a tropical rainforest. Another U.S. territory is American Samoa which has a tropical "moist" forest. From my hotel, the old "Rainmaker" right on the beach next to Pago Pago Harbor, I could jump in the rental and be at the top of the rainforest in 15 minutes. On Samoa proper (Western) there is another protected rainforest, the Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial Reserve.

You wonder what you'll see at the top of a rainforest. In Samoa there's a memorial for a famous plane crash at the top of the rainforest, and fruit bats. Another plane crash hit the hotel.

VPNAVY - United States Navy Patrol Squadrons VP-50 Memorial Page

Rust

[Sherwoody]

So does the PNW.

[hawaiian by heart]

Originally Posted by Sherwoody

So does the PNW.

Howzit Sherwoody? Wheres the picture taken at?

[Irish Eyes_Mrs. Z]

I grew up in a temperate rainforest in the northern Oregon Coast Range. It's not a TROPICAL rainforest, but it's still rainforest :-).

[Rinconcoqui]

We have a rainforest here in Puerto Rico which is part of the United States and so does St. Croix in the United States Virgin Islands.

[smarino]

There's a reason it's known as Gloomwood. Keep that in mind if you expect to see a certain amount of sun. I had to leave Portland for that reason. It just got too depressing.

[Morgan Gravley]

Ive lived here in Glenwood gardens for 6 years now.. And i love it.. Sure we got issues but at the same time everyone is generally pretty cool.. Most people here are plant lovers as I am myself. And one of the reasons i chose this location.. One thing I'd like to point out is as the kona/dry side of the island is getting wetter and the hilo/wet side is getting drier.. This specific location has gotten both wetter and drier due to global weirding.. For one it used to be more of a cloud forest.. But the clouds are coming in higher.. So now we get more actual rain and instead of clouds lingering as they pass through. They pass above us and let the sun in more often then typical.. The daily temps are comfortable.. Can be chilly in the winter.. The low last year was 44'.. I live off grid.. And plan to for the rest of my days here.. As does all my neighbors.. It's generally pretty chill here and in my opinion is the nicest part of puna.. I have like 4-6' of soil on average.. Mind you one thing to note is that a temporary seasonal undeveloped stream/river runs through the top half of Glenwood gardens.. I live between a branch that dries up in summer and the wet branch that tends to maintain water unless extreme drought.. And from what I understand historically when there was more of permafrost on Mauna Loa and the ice caverns were full this used to be more permanent. And could become again.. As the Mauna has experienced 5 glacial impacts.. If it was to return so would the river.. And since its seasonal it can cause major hazards. My road becomes a river and there is no way in or out during heavy rains.. During storms we get impacted more.. We got over 66” of rain in 36 hours during hurricane lanes passing and it didn't come within 100 miles of us.. I was stuck at home for 3 days.. The roads washed out.. Anywho.. Many lots are essentially dry river beds.. It's something to seriously consider when land hunting here.. I got one of the few high and dry lots on my road.. But also when the its nice out there's a stream a couple lots down from me.. With guppies and mollies and swordtales and Crayfish or whatever.. This temporary stream/river action makes it particularly dangerous because it builds up debris over time and that creates natural dikes like with the lava how it builds up and breaks out sometimes.. Possibly creating massive flash floods that historically wipe out the subdivisions along the stream river that runs from here all down the Hwy 11 until mountain view where it turns towards fern acres and its the same river bed you cross at the bridge into fern acres and hawaiian acres on south kulani.. It's usually dry down that end.. But up our end in Glenwood gardens it usually holds water all year long.. Which attracts alot of pigs and other wildlife.. Its technically punas only river/seasonal stream.. I say seasonal because that's what its devolving into.. But the potential is always there for it to become a river again.. For one not only is this due to global weirding.. But 2.. The farms up Mauka have bought up the water rights.. So now everyone downstream only gets the overflow from their massive retention ponds built on it.. One more thing as far as I understand.. Glenwood gardens is technically the left side of lehuanani.. And orchid isle estates is the right side of lehuanani.. We are a unique subdivision as we have no HOA for one.. And 2 im not sure why but technically Glenwood gardens is supposed to be part of volcano area code.. And orchid isle estates is supposed to be mountainview.. But for some reason they keep the Glenwood gardens/orchid isle estates as a single entity for whatever reason.. I can't say.. So therefor i get my mail in mountain view..