I had the opportunity to go to Easter Island last Fall (well… it was Spring on the island… but let’s not get into that) and looked forward to seeing what is promoted as the most remote inhabited place on earth. After all it is over 2000 miles off the coast of Chile and over 1200 miles from the next closest inhabited place – the Pitcairn Islands.
So, you’d imagine it would be a pretty exotic, altogether different kind of place, wouldn’t you. Yet the first thing I though when I got off of the plane was that it looked A LOT like the Kansas Flint Hills!
See for yourself and take my little quiz. I’ve paired up six sets of photos: one taken on Easter Island and the other in Kansas. See how many you can tell apart. I’ll put the answers in the comments area of this posting.
No cheating!!!
- Michael
Okay, here are the answers to the Easter Island Challenge. See how well you did…
photo 1A: Easter Island
photo 1B: Sculptures on a hillside near Lucas, Kansas.
photo 2A: The Konza Prairie near Manhattan, Kansas.
photo 2B: Easter Island
photo 3A: Kansas scene near Ashland.
photo 3B: Easter Island
photo 4A: Pawnee Rock in Kansas.
photo 4B: Easter Island
photo 5A: Green stone in Hill City, Kansas.
photo 5B: Easter Island
photo 6A: Easter Island
photo 6B: Famed Kansan, Doug Stremel
I got all but the last one right.
I might have been able to be convinced that the Flint Hills resembled a lot of places, but I wouldn’t have guessed there were similarities to Easter Island!
Whew! Sure glad you posted the answers because the last one had me stumped.
-Bruce
Yea, that last one was a brain-twister. Amazing resemblance between the two of them. So I guessed and got it right.
-doug