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...
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...
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...
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,...
