hot springs in Hawaii ?

Myron Hanch

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Nov 23, 2004, 12:40:02 AM11/23/04

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Does any one know of any hot springs pools any where in Hawaii that one can
swim in ?
Would be nice after a long flight !

auntiemaria

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Nov 23, 2004, 2:30:02 AM11/23/04

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Down toward Puna on Hawai`i island...Isaac Hale hot springs,
and the nearby Ahalanui (both are oceanfront).

Use google to search for "hawaii hot springs" and you'll
get photos, descriptions, and directions to most of them.

-- auntie maria

Oscar Voss

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Nov 23, 2004, 11:15:02 AM11/23/04

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"auntiemaria" <aun...@mele.com> wrote in message
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> Down toward Puna on Hawai`i island...Isaac Hale hot springs,
> and the nearby Ahalanui (both are oceanfront).
>
> Use google to search for "hawaii hot springs" and you'll
> get photos, descriptions, and directions to most of them.

I've been to the two mentioned above. Some of my photos are at
http://users.erols.com/ovoss/hot-springs-photos-page2.htm
(which also covers a group of steam caves in the same general area).
The
one in the Isaac Hale park is large enough to soak in but not swim, but
Ahalanui nearby is much larger and definitely swimmable.

Marjorie Gersh-Young's "Hot Springs and Hot Pools of the Southwest"
covers
these, as well as a third one near Kapoho I just found out about.
There are
reportedly others in the Puna area, though I haven't had any luck
finding
them.

--
Oscar Voss - ov...@erols.com - Arlington, Virginia

my Hot Springs and Highways pages: http://users.erols.com/ovoss/

Maren Purves

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Nov 23, 2004, 8:05:02 PM11/23/04

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but do you really think you'd want to drive all that way after a long
flight, which is what the OP was asking?

The nearest hot tub (or even just shower) maybe.
(Or, if you've been on your way from half way around the planet as sometimes
happens to me, just a bed is good enough for me).

Maren

Howard Bennett

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Nov 23, 2004, 10:10:07 PM11/23/04

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Watch out for the Puna hot pools -- the water is exactly the right
temperature to breed some very nast bacteria (helped along by parents
who
take their diapered kids into the water).

Any kind of open wound can get infected -- an elderly tourist died last
year
as a result of a nasty staph infection picked up at Ahalanui.

Ccnurs

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Nov 24, 2004, 10:20:01 PM11/24/04

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Thanks Howard. Those pools can really be quite lethal.

Just about the nastiest organism that one can pick up in those pools is
leptospirosis. Lepto is carried by the urine of infected animals (pigs,
rats,
etc) into fresh water streams, ponds, and waterfalls. It infects by
entering
the body through open areas or mucosal tissue.

It's a killer. I've taken care of patients who've had it. If they do
survive
it's only after a very long, hard course of treatment.

maunakea

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Nov 24, 2004, 10:25:11 PM11/24/04

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>> Myron Hanch wrote:
>>
>> Does any one know of any hot springs pools any where in Hawaii that
>> one can swim in ? Would be nice after a long flight !

> Maren wrote:
> but do you really think you'd want to drive all that way after a long
> flight, which is what the OP was asking?

> The nearest hot tub (or even just shower) maybe.
> (Or, if you've been on your way from half way around the planet as
> sometimes
> happens to me, just a bed is good enough for me).

> Maren

The OP (original poster) said "any where in Hawaii" so he had no
restriction on driving distance. Those are the two hot springs spots
that come to mind. If there are others on the isle I don't know about
them
-submm