Lord Howe Island

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Kerry and I went to the World Heritage-listed island of Lord Howe in the second week of August, 1998. Lovely place - so laid back, you feel comfortable within seconds of arriving. I haven't been able to convince Windows 98 to install my Artec scanner, so until I get the negatives scanned, I'll have to get you to squiz at some of the pix from Bill and Janne Shead's web site on Lord Howe. Bill's an energetic chap, still considered a "newbie" after a dozen years on the Island. A bit of "small town" mentality around there :-)

We thoroughly enjoyed the 8 days and 7 nights at Ebb Tide - thanks, Julie and Max.

Alan Levy has two beautiful pix of Lord Howe at the Goat House and clouds off Mts Lidgbird and Gower.
The weather was good - maxima around 19oC, minima around 13oC. You can check out the long-term averages at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology weather site. I took a couple of weather charts with us to get an idea of what we may expect during the week. Excellent idea! The location of Lord Howe is the dot just below 30 South latitude, and left of the 160 degree line of East longitude. (The dot ABOVE the 30 degree line at left of 170oE longitude is Norfolk Island - next year's holiday!) My only grumble was that I couldn't find out current temperatures, only pressures and winds! They have relented somewhat. The LHI weather page gives forecast temperatures for Lord Howe, since 1999.

Lord Howe is a narrow arc of basalt mountains and calcareous sands 11km long by up to 2.5km wide. It is the remainder of a 7 million year-old seamount. Check out the island pix at Lord Howe's volcano site and the nearby Ball's Pyramid. Talk about a magic castle! Eeerie, just poking straight up out of the ocean like that! At about 551m high, it is spectacular even from Lord Howe's 23km distance. That site goes into the geology of the Lord Howe Rise, and its relation to the nearby New Caledonia - Norfolk Island - New Zealand ridge. These are on the Indian-Australian Plate boundary, whereas Lord Howe is well interior to that, and was created from hot-spot activity as was Hawaii.

By the way, I even climbed Mt Gower, and I have the T-shirt to prove it! The round trip is 14km, and you climb from sea-level to 865m during that - a tad strenuous. My thighs ached for three days afterwards - and I walk 25km a day three days a week... My thanks for the fun time I had to Tim Kennedy, our guide, and the other 8 silly people who decided to climb Gower. It was fun, but wasn't it nice to be on flat ground again?!

This is the only picture I have done thus far: A wall plaque made on Lord Howe Island - 124kB (440 by 618)

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First created 1998-08-23
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