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Hawaii (the Big Island)
Thursday 27 November 03
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 | Some birds that live on the grounds of our hotel, the Waikoloa Hilton
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| We spent the morning on a plane ride, basically over the same route we took on the bus yesterday.
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 | The city of Kailua-Kona. If you have a choice, and don't mind spending an entire day, the bus ride was much better.
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| Kehoe (KEE-hoe) Bay. I'm surprised that I enjoyed this so much, considering that I'm terribly acrophobic.
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 | Altitude 3000 ft
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 | Flying south along the west side of the island.
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 | You get a very impressive view of where lava flowed down the island.
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| This was most likely the Mauna Loa eruption of 1950
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 | The left side of the picture is "instant coastline". Take the original coastline (green), add lava, and cool.
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| By law, any "new" land created in this way belongs to the State.
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| Altitude 4000 ft
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 | This picture didn't come out too well, but it's a little town with a grid of streets, which a lava flow came through and created dead ends.
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| The southernmost point in the United States
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 | Altitude 5500 ft
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 | Flying north towards Kilauea.
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| Kilauea Volcano, erupting since January 1983
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| Lava flowing down the side of Kilauea.
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 | Sadly, these are our only pictures of actual lava...
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| ...but it sure puts out a lot of steam.
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 | The fog rolled in, so we dropped our altitude.
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| 2000 ft.
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 | Papaya fields, 1500 ft
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| The city of Hilo, 2000 ft. Hilo is the largest city on the island of Hawaii.
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 | Hilo Bay
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| The lava came through here and bore a valley through the mountain.
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 | The north side of the Big Island; looking across the water at Maui
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| Hilo gets about 120 inches of rainfall a year, which is about 100 inches more than Kona gets.
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 | These two pictures almost draw a line between the wet and dry sides.
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| Flying south on the west side of the island.
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 | Waikoloa Village, 2000 ft. Beach resort town with a lot of hotels. The five buildings around the watern inlet at the bottom of the picture are the Waikoloa Hilton.
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| This area is considered vulnerable to eruptions from Mauna Loa...
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 | like in 1859, when it erupted on its north-west side.
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| Our plane and our pilot.
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 | This gecko shared our hotel room, and saved us 15% on our car insurance too.
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