Wow, idyllic and awesome

Don’t let Graham Hancock see this

I’ve seen this happen before! Just at a much smaller scale. Whenever it rains hard, these dirt towers usually appear beneath pebbles. I never knew that it happened to boulders though! Thought the ones in the photo were really small at first, lol

Looks like a bunch of rocks blasting off to space

Not long, you can go outside after a good rain and see it on a small scale. Find small rocks sitting on inch tall columns

I thought that too at first glance, but there is no way the smaller ones produce any significant compression. (especially that tiny one on the huge pyramid on the right) They just protect the loam underneath them from rain and thus softening.

You can tell in the comments who didn't go outside as a kid.

Its not so rounded looking and the main pool is shorter. Just the fish eye lens is distorting the picture

PNW for the win!

I used to think it was obnoxious when people would talk incessantly about how nice it is, I assumed they just wanted to gush about a nice vacation. Needless to say, when I went it changed my opinion. That place is truly a magical paradise.

How long does it take for this to happen? Or how old are these structures in particular? The landscape around it looks pretty unstable so I can’t imagine it’s outrageously old

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I love this place and I also love just driving to get there from the kohala coast other side of the island. It doesn't take long to get there but you manage to go through a few different climate zones and sceneries. And in the same day you can easily get to volcanoes national park and the caldera of Kilauea

I'm not a diving expert or a waterfall expert or a gravity expert, but pretty sure that's a guaranteed death

Looks like Jurassic park waterfall

they're beautiful but something inside my monkey brain just wants to destroy them

it doesn't look human made, it looks like erosion.

erosion is a social construct

Was it cold

I heard majority of people that live there is just a small part

Is it much smaller

"You're welcome!"

This reminds me of the “Pillars of Creation” photo that the Hubble Space Telescope took.

Serious question, who thought this looks human made?

Maybe people who don't know a lot about how erosion works. At least my first reaction was "how else did those big rocks get there?" and then I read somde comments and it all made more sense. I had just never considered that rocks would have this effect on the ground.