This year we went to Hawaii. First we went to the "big island". It is the island of Hawaii, but this is just confusing. We stayed mostly on the west side, north of Kona.
The first places we went to were the beaches. They were perfect, and no crowds! There were like 40 yards between us and the next family. Helen did a lot of shell collecting. I swam with her some while Bonnie enjoyed sitting on the beach. Unfortunately, there are no pictures, as evidently sand, sea water, and digital cameras don't really mix.
After getting accustomed to being on Hawaii, we used Bonnie's tour guide to plan out trips and sight seeing.
First we went around to the other side of the island to see the waterfall's.
This one was huge. It took water about 7 seconds to make it from the top the bottom.
Here is Helen and I in complete awe of the scenery!
From here we went to see the big site on the island, the active Volcano!
We couldn't get anywhere near real lava, which was a disappointment to me, but a relief to Helen. For some reason she didn't want to have a "magma incident".
The national park service had also closed a bunch of roads due to high levels of poisonous gas coming out of the volcano. But we did get around to an inactive side that had lots to see and hiking trails.
This is us up on the rim of the crater.
We then walked through the jungle on a path that went serpentine down the cliff and then out onto the lava field.
Here's a shot of Bonnie and Helen admiring the plant life that is growing up through the now hardened lava.
More when I get back to this tomorrow (its taking a long time to upload pictures and video).
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