01.08.05 - Big Island

All images captured by "the dragon" - an eyemodule on a Handspring Visor PDA.

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Newlyweds at the King Kamehameha Hotel luau in Kailua (20767 bytes)

Muana Loa, the world's largest mountain mass (33,000' from the floor of the ocean) and one of the most active volcanoes in the world, rising above Kilauea caldera on the most active volcano in the world (9395 bytes)

Hula lesson at the King Kamehameha Hotel luau (19984 bytes)

Skull at the Humu'ula sheep station on the Parker Ranch (16309 bytes)

Canada France Hawaii telescope (left) & Gemini telescope - no scale for reference but I would say the Gemini dome is at least 140' tall (10765 bytes)

Kamehameha arrives at the luau! (Kailua canoe club practice in the background) (15583 bytes)

Jumbo fern undergrowth by the Thurston Lava Tube in Volcanoes National Park (23518 bytes)

African tulip at the Amy Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden in Captain Cook town on the Kona coast (19226 bytes)

Old shacks at the Humu'ula sheep station on the Parker Ranch (17854 bytes)

KeauhouSunset6_CG.jpg (9738 bytes)

Sunset from the top of Muana Kea, the location of the premiere astronomical observatories in the world. The Japanese Subaru telescope on the left is now the largest single mirror in the world and Keck I & II on the right are the largest telescopes in the world (composite mirrors) (5904 bytes)

Kona_surf7_CG.jpg (20532 bytes)

ParkerRanchPickupTruck.jpg (19962 bytes)

Lisa & Herman - expert guides from Hawaii Forest and Trail. Note the person watching the sunset from the walkway on the UKIRT telescope in the background (13815 bytes)

DeadCrab2.jpg (21803 bytes)

Kona_surf1.jpg (16908 bytes)

Coconut demo at the King Kamehameha Hotel luau (18810 bytes)

KeauhouBlowhole1.jpg (14494 bytes)

Jumbo ferns at Volcanoes National Park (22199 bytes)

Trail across the Kilauea Iki crater, steaming vents and sulfur gas everywhere (14381 bytes)

Very Long Baseline Array 82ft diameter radio telescope on Muana Kea. Note the large 4-wheel drive tractor snow blowers at the base for scale (12995 bytes)

All smiles on the flight to the Big Island (15126 bytes)

Dressing up to go for a sunset dinner at the Waterfront in Ma'alea on Maui (14658 bytes)

Kona_surf9.jpg (15902 bytes)

Samoan fire dance at the luau (20837 bytes)

01.08.05 - On The Big Island
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