Another great day in Paradise, had no sleep after spending last night at Honolulu airport, but made up for that by having a great day today.
I will let the pics do the talking.
Bamboo outside my room
my room
the view from the balcony of the sea where the tsunami will come from
the breakfast area
the sign at the front, no expense spared for this place
the Wild Ginger Inn
bridge on walk into town
waterfall upstream of bridge
hanging roots
Hilo (Heelo) architecture
Hilo Tsunami Museum ( they copped it here in 1946)
Rainbow Falls on way to Mauna Kea
Shrine to Mountain Gods, Manua Kea in background
Island of Old Growth Koa trees formed when Lava flow in 1834 made hill an island.
Lava examples, the bottom I think is called rope lava because it looks like rope.
Manua Kea Visitor Centre (2400 Mtrs)
Views new summit, we'll above clouds. Top was 4200 mrs
At summit with Telescopes, Australian one in the middle
View of Keck telescopes (2 in the middle), one on right is NASA and don't remember one on left.
More views
Nearing sunset
View from Summit, note Full moon and dark triangle slightly to right of slope is the shadow of Manua Kea on the clouds below.
Sunset (its starting to get cold)
One of the Kecks has its window open.
On the way back down, we stopped to look at the stars and could also see glimpses of red coming up through the clouds of lava flows from Kilaeau. Apparently get much better views from Jagger park, no I just need to figure out how I get there. Time to sleep now.
looks good, keep the images coming.
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