July 5-12, 2024

~ islanddave

Honoli’i Beach Park, a few miles north of Hilo. https://www.hawaiibeaches.com/beach/honolii-beach-park/#google_vignette

Not for swimming as the waves break on the rocky shore. This place is a favorite for local surfers and boogie boarders (6 year old girl not more than 3′ tall walks past me with her board heading to the “beach” to ride into the waves, impressed!)

Lifeguards intently watch the water, this “beach”, not for the inexperienced.
Local surfers adopted the beach and have been taking care of it. ““We doing our best to be the example our youth and community needs to see! Giving back freely to the places that we love, and that gives so much to us,” said Bradda Skibs, founder of Basic Image Inc., the local nonprofit that spearheads the effort. “Taking care of one of our living classrooms. Built with aloha for all to enjoy. Aloha honua!”https://bigislandnow.com/2017/04/12/surfers-give-back-to-their-home-break-honolii/

July 6th my young cousin Jen and her boyfriend Reese join me for the next 2 weeks.

Hawaii Tropical Botanical Gardens https://htbg.com/
Kilauea Crater trail.
Still looking for the top of Mauna Loa.

Hilo stay. Street view, 2nd floor unit.

Back yard, 2nd floor rear entrance and lanai.
Liliuokalani Gardens, Coconut Island view.
University of Hawaii, Hilo Botanical Garden

‘Ohi’a-Lehua tree. In Hawaiian mythology, ‘Ōhi’a and Lehua were young lovers. The volcano goddess Pele fell in love with the handsome ‘Ōhi’a, but he turned down her advances. In a fit of jealousy, Pele transformed ‘Ōhi’a into a tree. Lehua was devastated. Out of pity, other gods turned her into a flower on the ‘ōhi’a tree.

Volcanoes National Park.

Kilauea crater, middle.
Left side.
Mauna Kea (White Mountain) View from Kilauea. Arrow points to the observatories at the summit.

Mauna Kea is unusually topographically prominent for its height, with a wet prominence fifteenth in the world among mountains, and a dry prominence second in the world, after only Mount Everest. It is the highest peak on its island, so its wet prominence matches its height above sea level, at 4,207.3 m (13,803 ft). Because the Hawaiian Islands slope deep into the ocean, Mauna Kea has a dry prominence of 9,330 m (30,610 ft). This dry prominence is taller than Mount Everest’s height above sea level of 8,848.86 m (29,032 ft), so Everest would have to include whole continents in its foothills to exceed Mauna Kea’s dry prominence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauna_Kea

Volcano Art Center Gallery in the former 1877 Volcano House Hotel. https://www.nps.gov/havo/learn/historyculture/volcano-house.htm

How Kilauea came to it’s present shape.

https://www.nps.gov/havo/learn/nature/2018-eruption.htm

Kona stay. Upper level with a view of the ocean from the lanai.
From the stair landing.

Pahoahoa Beach Park.
Magic Sands July 12th, much of the beach sand has returned.

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  1. Loving all the photos! That one condo reminds me of the one where Dave and Anne stayed when we saw them in Hawaii 5 years ago. Also – the photos of Volcanoes National Park – is that the same volcano we saw when we were there? I can’t remember! I just remember that awesome drive down the side of the mountain and the view of that blue ocean!

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