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We are now in Akaka Falls State Park walking via a tropical rainforest. This is made possible by the large amount of rain that falls here, averaging around 140 inches of rain per year!
I found this while reading about rainforests in Hawai'i: for roughly 70 million years, Hawaii existed in isolation from the rest of the world by a great swath of the Pacific—wherein plants and animals had to hitch rides on birds, gusts, or waves—and you’ll start to understand just how formidable and unique the creatures in our tropical jungle are. (So enchanting, in fact, that in 2010 Hawaiian rainforests became indelible across the world in a U.S. postage stamp.)
I found this while reading about rainforests in Hawai'i: for roughly 70 million years, Hawaii existed in isolation from the rest of the world by a great swath of the Pacific—wherein plants and animals had to hitch rides on birds, gusts, or waves—and you’ll start to understand just how formidable and unique the creatures in our tropical jungle are. (So enchanting, in fact, that in 2010 Hawaiian rainforests became indelible across the world in a U.S. postage stamp.)