We caught a decent sunset on the way home from HWY 200.
Nice....
This dusk shot just had an ethereal feel to it.
After the Green Sands days we headed back to the entrance of Mauna Kea road... except the mountain had vanished.
We had come back to visit the Kipuka Pu'u Huluhulu. A Kipuka is an island of land that has been surrounded by lava flows, thus isolating the land and allowing…
Don't know what these blooms are called.
The trail up the Kipuka gets one breathing hard in short order even though the trail is short. Why? We're at nearly 7,000' in elevation.
Mossy covered grove of native trees.
Mrs H loves the Kipuka.
This plant is punk-rock!
The top of the Kipuka!
I liked this tree.
Detail of the moss or lichen growing on the trees.
We had expected to see a ton of birds, but this little guy was one of the only songbirds that we came in contact with.
We also saw these cousins of a chukkar.
Back off the Kipuka, Mrs H and I went looking for lava samples but also found this nice shot showing how the lava surrounded the hill (old cinder cone) to make…
This road goes to the Mauna Loa observatories, bute didn't have time to visit this time around.
