Beautiful Akaka falls
At the farmer's market in downtown Hilo
A secluded park that Roy, PY, and few others know about
It was windy at the volcano that day
Hot lava cooled on the outside, but ran freely inside, forming this 'lava tube' discovered by a man named Thurston
Crater near the active eruption. You can see offerings to Pele, the volcano god. Cooled, once-molten, lava appears at the bottom.
Hot steam emerges from this vent. Don't burn your hands!
Tropical flowers abound
Wow, what a nice new van!
On the table in our room at the Hilo Hawaiian hotel
When the weather is always nice, you don't need walls!
A local photographer
Our friend Roy, a master photographer
Mom and her orchids at the grower's greenhouse
Another breathtaking specimen!
Looking up into the branches of a monkeypod tree
An orchid set in colorful ground cover
That same local photographer
Unbelievably beautiful
Tea garden next door to our hotel
View along a roadway through a tropical rain forest
View of the shoreline north of Hilo