Hawaii

Here are some photos from our trip to Hawaii...not much to comment on other than the Big Island is beautiful, and I can't wait to go back...
sunset from the lounge at the Keahou Beach Resort Hotel...nice to enjoy Mai Tais while watching this...






sunset from the Onizuka Visitors Center at 9200ft on Mauna Kea...



even the bathrooms in Hawaii can be nice...here a shaft of light poked through a window at the Hilo airport before our helicopter ride...

what I thought was a "spared" home near the volcano, is actually an observation station for scientists...(thanks to the wife for the correction). All the black is lava rock.


Akaka Falls, 420 feet...

in the forests around Akaka Falls Orchids seemed to drop from the sky...

the lovely Alicia Boal...


one of the views from our suite at Keauhou Beach Resort...


On our way south after the wedding we stopped at Pu'uhonua Honaunau (The Place of Refuge)...here, Charlie talked to us about the old Hawaiian and Polynesian ways of life...very interesting...


this guy checked us out as we enjoyed some Ono sandwiches at The Coffee Shack...


the closest I was able to get to a Green Turtle...this time at a beach at Pu'uhonua Honaunau...


on the southern part of the Big Island is the volcano and the lava flows...here is the lava entering the ocean as seen from the viewing area 1/2mi. away...


lava flows as seen from above...



incredible amount of ferns in the rainforests surrounding the craters and volcanoes at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park...


hiking the Kilauea Iki trail around the inactive Kilauea Iki crater...in Nov. of 1959 this was a lake of molten lava below...





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  1. great pics...wish we could have made it out there for your wedding!

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