Another botanical attraction on Maui’s “Road to Hana” is the bamboo. At various places, this grows in enormous and practically-impenetrable...
The Hawaiian island microclimates fascinate me. Both Maui and the Big Island offer perfect examples of how rain shadow areas work, each having distinctly...
When we were last down in Lahaina, the local sailing club was having a competition and a flotilla of kid-filled dinghies were racing around the harbour....
We drove the legendary “Road to Hana” on Maui a couple of days ago. This well-travelled path stretches 34 miles along the north coast of the islands...
The power of the Pacific Ocean is very evident on the eastern, windward side of the Big Island of Hawaii. Waves crash into lava in a battle that the ocean...
During our drive from Volcano back to Kailua-Kona Airport, we took a side-trip down to Punalu’u Beach, famous for its black sand. The sand was the main...
We’re moving back to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park for today’s picture. This shows the larger active crater on the Big Island’s Kilauea...
One of the best recommendations we received while on the Big Island was to visit this “secret” beach. Ed at Snorkel Bob’s Mauna Lani...
In 1959, the Kilauea Iki vent erupted throwing magma 1900 feet into the air and filling the bottom of the crater with a lake of molten lava. 53 years later,...
Kilauea lies on the south east side of the Big Island of Hawai’i and is the only one of the three volcanoes on the island that is currently active....
About 4 miles from Akaka Falls State Park, you pass through the town of Homonu, a quaint little village containing a collection of galleries, bakeries,...
Yes, this is a postcard shot but, even if I say so myself, it’s rather better than some of the postcards I saw yesterday after our visit to Akaka...
The landscape around here on the west side of the Big Island of Hawaii is pretty striking. This area is in the rain shadow of Mauna Lua and Mauna Kea and,...
We got back from dinner rather later than planned last night, partly due to a rather strong Mai Tai but also because the restaurant we were eating in was so good...
