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Airport birds. |
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Hawaii’s first church. |
Watching the Fiesta Bowl. |
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| Taking pictures of stupid stuff. |
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Morning at Mauna Kea parking lot. |
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Clouds rolling in. |
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| We stayed above the clouds all day. |
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| Lake Waiau. |
First sight of observatories. |
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| Cloud land. |
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My fortune. |
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Mauna Kea benchmark. |
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Looks like another volcanic crater. |
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| I love cartoons! |
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Steam vents in the national park. |
Half clouds, half volcano smoke. |
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| Steam vents everywhere. |
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Morning at Kaʻaha. |
Camp. |
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Shiny morning lava. |
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Seashell graveyard. |
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A little pool protected from ocean waves. |
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Sea cucumber. |
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That’s an eel! It was snapping at little fishes. |
Urchin. |
Cut on hands and feet after swimming in the ocean. |
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| Some weird life form. |
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Foot first aid. |
No trail but cairns. |
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| Way high above the plain floor. |
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Starting out towards the Puʻu ʻŌʻō flow. |
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Made it to these signs but didn’t see any lava. |
The first marker is marker 0! |
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| Cat outside Domino’s. |
Next night’s camp down some unmarked road. |
Cut still bleeding. |
Filling up water back at the Mauna Kea visitor center. |
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| Stop bulldozing our ʻāina. |
Starting up Mauna Loa. |
Behatted rock. |
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Groovy crystals. |
This rock glowed green through a polarized lens. |
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| The crater at the top, still two miles from the summit. |
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Really kick-ass view into the crater. |
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My many moods. |
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In a cave going down. |
Night fell before we were quite to the car. |
Hostel in Kona. |
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Airport bird. |
