My Vacation in Paradise

O'ahu Hawai'i
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The Big Island of Hawai'i


The resort town of Kailua-Kona, from its wharf
The Captain Cook Memorial - reputed site of his death, accessible only from the water
Looking out over Kilauea caldera, on the most active of Hawai's 5 volcanoes
At park HQ, a relief map of the Big Island (a bit distorted by my wide-angle lens) - I've shown the 5 volcanoes
Halema'uma'u crater, current home of the goddess Pele
Offerings to Pele - she is taken very seriously
Fire and Brimstone in her sulfurous garden!
Hawai'i? or Mars?
Lava Tube, in a tropical sinkhole
In the gullet of the tube...
My old undergrad friend Dr. Jaymie Matthews, now of the University of British Columbia's Astronomy Department, is WAAAAY too serious - in spite of his serious (chicken) foot-fetish!
Devastation Trail
site of a relatively-recent lava flow, which rolled over the road to the spot where the lava flows into the sea - we walked the rest of the way by night...

O'ahu Hawai'i
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