Leaving Las Vegas for Hawaii.
Our guest house in Volcano, Big Island. Very moisty in the room.
Gary (the excursion leader) giving information.
Gary (the excursion leader)
Matt
Joy from Olympia celebrating 25 000 caches
15 people in 2 vans, for daily excursions.
Orchid
Flamingo flower
Kilauea crater
Steam vents at Kiluauea
Rain forest
Entrance lava tube
The leaders Matt and Gary together with Audrey outside the lava tube.
Lava tube
Measuring lava stone
Lava (pahoehoe, smooth lava)
Camilla in lava field
Crater at Kilauea, impressive in the night.
Eruption threatening Pahoa (the first house was taken by the lava when we were there).
Also covered in Swedish news papers
No entry to the new lava fields threatening Pahoa.
Local beers.
Mats and Camilla at crater.
Lava around tree.
Lava around former tree.
Walking on lava fields up to old crater rim.
Lava
New lava flow.
New road through new lava flows.
New road through new lava fields. The current eruption also caused new roads to be built, since other roads were destroyed.
Sea arch at southern point.
Rock carvings
Colourful
Basalt columns.
Walking to Green Sand Beach.
Green Sand Beach (olivine)
Green Sand Beach.
Nice swim.
Black Sand Beach
Turtle
Tsunami in Lapauho'eho'e, April 1st 1946, 20 school children and four teachers drowned.
Tsunami memory
Banyan tree
Akaka Falls (133 meter)
Geocaching on the slopes of the volcano.
The clouds stopped here, rainy side on the right (east), dry side on the left (west).
Ahalanui hot tubs with connection to the sea.
Lava tube, Kaumana caves.
Lava tube with nice bottom.
Vacation at Waikiki shore on Oahu.
Kailua beach, a paradise.
Kaneohe bay
Dove in the crater (imported from Asia)
Myna (imported from India) in the crater
Diamond Head from our hotel
Diamond Head, in the old crater.
Waikiki from the Diamond Head crater rim.
A short visit to Pearl Harbor