Thursday, June 10th 3:00a.m. my alarm goes off. Time to get ready to catch our 6:00a.m. flight
to Kona. We arrive in Kona at 7:00 a.m. pick up our rental car and we are on our way.
First we head to Hilo. We decided to do a little circle island tour. I am really sad I didn't have my camera out and ready or my video camera out and ready to capture the ride from Kona to Hilo. It is amazing. You first start out in black volcanic rock. After about 45 min. your scenery turns to greenery, than it is farm land, pastures, cows, horses, you feel like you are in another state, shortly there after you are in the mountains, mountain driving, trees, once again you feel like you passed over into another state, then you hit like a tropical rainforest, with the palm trees, it is so crazy!
After arriving in Hilo, we headed straight to the Hilo airport and traded our car in for this.
The first car we had rented started acting up when driving through all of the mountain area. So they gave us this car which we were grateful for since it had ALOT more room!!
Our first stop in Hilo was Rainbow Falls.
and as you can see, sadly not much of a falls :(
Next stop Akaka Falls
In songs were they talk about the ocean meeting the sky, they are talking about the Big Island, it is so beautiful. The different shades of blue. I couldn't stop looking at it.
This falls was beautiful. 440 foot falls.
After the two falls we headed over to Volcano National Park.
SADLY :( it started raining and I did not get any pictures. Thinking we would go back on another day, I was not too concerned. That day never came :(
Volcano National Park
So much fun. We first stopped by the steam vents, pretty cool. Then we saw Kilauea crater. It was huge with lots of steam shooting up in the distance. While we were there they were doing a ceremony of some kind. I am not sure for what though, it was cool. Lots of chanting and dancing and music. It looked as though they were giving an offering to the crater. Something covered in taro leafs.
Then we went to the lava tubes. Kali's favorite. They are huge tunnels in the ground created by lava flow. So you get to walk through them. It was beautiful walk down full of ferns. It looked like Fern Gully.
After Volcano National Park we headed home. We got to our hotel at 6:00 p.m. and we were exhausted and ready to go to sleep.
This was the view from our balcony.
We had a good day!!!
6 comments:
im still so sad we didn't get to go. dang it!
From what I've seen so far the big Island looks GORGEOUS!!! I want to go there!!!!
I especially LOVE the sunset pictures!!(you guys had an awesome view from your balcony!!!)
awesome! Kali and Krewzer look so much more alike now and kali girls hair looks curlier. miss you guys!
fun fun! my mom is from there, and i was born there. i love it. but we were up north, in hawi, where the kamehameha statue is. that house at the end of the road at pololu is my great-grandpa's, last time we were there was in 2006 when he passed away. he's buried in his yard there. maybe you went there...
James and I wanted to go to the big Island so bad but instead we got the opportunity to go Germany and we couldn't pass that up. After seeing your pictures I've decided I can't die until I get to go to the big island. It looks so Gorgeous.
what a fun trip! i want to go to the big island one day! I was beginning to think aaron really wasn't on the trip since he was only in like 2 pics!
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