{"id":414,"date":"2022-09-05T10:47:57","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T17:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaytat.com\/blog\/?p=414"},"modified":"2025-10-19T19:38:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T02:38:33","slug":"jurassic-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaytat.com\/blog\/?p=414","title":{"rendered":"Jurassic Park"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I knew that many of the filming locations for the very first Jurassic Park were set in Hawaii. And I&#8217;ve always wondered about the location where the helicopter first approaches Isla Nublar. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jurassic Park helicopter arriving scene\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ghKy8FRhs28?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Most Google searches suggest the Na Pali Coast on Kauai but I couldn&#8217;t find the little rock island that you see on the left in the video above. And by &#8220;find&#8221; I mean using the 3D view on Google maps and examining the entire Kauai coastline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that&#8217;s because this shot is not from Kauai, but Maui. This spot is known as Keopuka Rock or Jurassic Rock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d7698.500725859146!2d-156.17657566365764!3d20.876101941562364!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x0%3A0x2f03657cbed6abe3!2zMjDCsDUyJzM0LjAiTiAxNTbCsDEwJzE5LjUiVw!5e1!3m2!1sen!2sus!4v1662391773016!5m2!1sen!2sus\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" style=\"border:0;\" allowfullscreen=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I knew that many of the filming locations for the very first Jurassic Park were set in Hawaii. And I&#8217;ve always wondered about the location where the helicopter first approaches Isla Nublar. Most Google searches suggest the Na Pali Coast on Kauai but I couldn&#8217;t find the little rock island that you see on the &#8230; <a title=\"Jurassic Park\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/kaytat.com\/blog\/?p=414\" aria-label=\"More on Jurassic Park\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaytat.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaytat.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaytat.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaytat.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaytat.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kaytat.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":419,"href":"https:\/\/kaytat.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions\/419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaytat.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaytat.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaytat.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}