Hawaii, the Big Island, March 29 - April 4 2009


Mokuola (Coconut) Island, just offshore from our hotel.

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Mokuola Island, seen from our hotel room.


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Another view from our hotel. I think I saw a rainbow every day we were there.


Akaka Falls State Park. The first three photos show Akaka Falls,
420 feet. The photos really don't do the place justice; from the place where
they were taken, all you can see is lush tropical rainforest in every
direction. There is really nothing like this anywhere in North America.

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The next one is Kahuna Falls, 400 feet.

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An apple banana plant (technically it's a grass) with leaves bigger than Ray.
The fruit is delicious; I was warned that eating one would spoil plain old
bananas for me forever. True enough.


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Onomea Bay, just north of Hilo. We saw a pod of gray whales just offshore here.


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These next two were taken at the beach in downtown Hilo.

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A helicopter ride to check out the lava flow from Kilauea out to the ocean.

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The hotel we stayed at, viewed from Mokuola Island.


Banyan trees. They are all over the island.

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Some weird large plants in the rainforest just outside Hilo. The first one
looks like a variegated sedge, except it's about 12 feet tall.

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Looking down into the Waipi'o Valley.
You need a 4WD vehicle, which we didn't have, to get to it.


Rainbow Falls, Hilo.

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At the Pana'ewa Rainforest Zoo in Hilo.


 

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