Volcanos and Waterfalls

OH how I wish I had speedy internet!! I took over 200 pictures on this trip :) so what you see is the extremely condensed version of the trip. The order has been totally screwed up by the blog for some reason.. which really annoys me, but I dont have time to sit here and reload everything on a slow connection. ANNNNNNYWAY, here are some pictures from this weekend! I had a ton of fun. We ended up not camping because we arrived at waipio valley a little too late, and there were some other risks involved which we were unaware of at the time we planned the trip. So, instead we stayed and Michael and Hara's house which was on our way around the island, and it was so nice. They have an AVOCADO TREE in their backyard, among many many other things (bananas, macadamian nuts, mangos!)

The pictures aren't in order but here it goes


Walking into "lava tube" at volcano national park. This was toward the end

this is what it looks like inside the lava tube


The smoke you see in the back is the lava hitting the ocean, we couldn't actually see lava, just smoke :( which was very disappointing


what we looked like after 2 days of hiking and exploring. *whew* very exhausting. we were waiting for sunset so we could see the lava reflecting in the smoke and the lava flow which was really really far away

That's the viewing area same place as before but at night the smoke reflects the red lava



rainbow falls - when its sunny there is a rainbow across the water thus the name :D

steam vents at volcano national park


Steam VEnt at Vocalno national park

"caldeiras" at the volcano national park


Thats Michael showing us the backyard. two words: AVOCADO TREE. AHH

My second time at Akaka falls :) gets prettier every time...


Miriam swinging :)


we hiked through lava randomly to get to the water(Near kona the main highway sits between fields of lava rock ) . Most beaches are about a mile into the lava because we're on the coast, but of course there are roads! we just chose to hike this time. We ended up at Kiholo bay, which i've been to before... the only way I can think to describe it is ... heaven perhaps?! it's so quiet, the water is beautiful, there are palm trees and sea turtles everywhere... and it's SO QUIET. no people.

Waipio Valley. We hiked down to the valley which is SO beautiful, but it was dark by the time we got down (... like a mile on STEEP very steepp hill)

Hara and Michael's place. EATING RAMEN



Hiking the lava (that's thorsten I think)


haha dork!

I tied that thing around me cus I didnt want to carry a towel in case you were wondering why I look like a fool ;)

I will try to put up some more pictures later.
Everything here is going really well, and i'm happy that we weather never gets cold :)

the end.