We did not take scooters, surely doable, but we decided for a small open top SUV. In August weather was really unpredictable, warm, but not too warm, windy, rain came several times as a shower and sun came out minutes later.
This is the crater lake. This is where I imagine rapamycin was found (from description in papers) and it is truly the most magical part of the island. No statues around, but this is where ancient islanders lived.
And a rare dissected nervous system artifact in my museum follows this piece on the Rapa Heads in “Rarely Seen Images Of Things We’ve Always Wondered About!”
Funny huh - how everything is connected - we just don’t know it.
Not yet. We are just thinking about it. I would love to cruise there, but my understanding is that that is iffy–you can get all the way there, encounter bad weather, and then you are unable to go ashore.
! Any plans, yet?