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<caption>Hawaiian art</caption>
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<caption>There are wild chickens like this one all over the Big Island. </caption>
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<caption>Where the lava meets the sea</caption>
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<caption>This whole coast was made by lava pouring into the ocean.</caption>
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<caption>Some of the lava splinters into shards, which are soon ground into black sand.</caption>
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<caption>Here is a black-sand beach.</caption>
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<caption>This is a black-sand beach, complete with a hippie
drumming and hula circle, that we found by talking to the locals.
You have to climb down a cliff on a steep unmarked trail.  I would
have taken a lot more photos, but I didn't want to seem so much like a tourist.
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<caption>Sea, palm trees, clouds:  a Hawaiian dream.</caption>
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<caption>Nothing special:  just Hawaii.</caption>
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<caption>South Point, the southernmost point of the USA.</caption>
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<caption>Here you can jump off the cliff, a 36-foot drop.
If the undertow takes you,  your next stopping point is Antarctica.
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<caption>Here are about forty people wandering about, 
trying to decide whether or not to jump off the cliff.
Formerly there was a ladder to climb back up.  Now you have
to swim down a bit and climb the cliff.
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<caption>Here's the 36-foot drop straight down.
Now I regret that I didn't jump.  </caption>
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<caption>The State of Hawaii's advice on the matter. 
Despite these cautionary signs, they provide convenient 
concrete platforms from which to jump.</caption>
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<caption>On the road to Mauna Kea.
Four-wheel drive?  Four-wheel drive?!  We don't
need no stinkin' four-wheel drive!
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<caption>Invisible cows?  Well,  we didn't see any.
I think they mean fog-shrouded cows.
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<caption>This is how the Polynesians got to Hawaii a millenium ago.</caption>
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<caption>The summit of Mauna Kea is home to many observatories.</caption>
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<caption>One of the two Keck telescopes.
It has a visitor's gallery.  We saw the telescope execute a move.
The telescope is very large and massive, but so well-balanced on its
azimuthal track (and a very thin film of oil) that it can be moved 
with one hand.  We didn't see that, though: the move we saw was 
a rotation about a horizontal axis, executed in seconds by powerful motors.
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<caption>There are waterfalls throughout the island, due to 
heavy rainfall in the mountains and the northeast.</caption>
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<caption>The wet parts are very lush</caption>
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<caption>Just another waterfall.</caption>
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<caption>There are coconuts up there!</caption>
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<caption>On our last night in Kona, we stayed in a hotel
in Kona City.  It's a very touristy area, for good reason:
the best sunsets in the island and the sunniest weather are here.
I loved the non-exclusionary policy of this Mexican place.
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<caption>Kona sunset from that restaurant.  The restaurants
in Kona don't need walls,  and many do not have them.
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<caption>Sunset and wine in Kona.</caption>
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<caption>Sun getting lower and lower</caption>
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<caption>The weather here is so PERFECT!</caption>
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<caption>Next day we flew to Kauai, the oldest of the islands
and only about 35 miles in diameter.</caption>
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<caption>Waimea canyon, the "Grand Canyon of the Pacific", 
long and deep although not really as long and deep as the Grand Canyon.
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<caption>We drove all the way up the canyon, stopping at lookouts like this one.</caption>
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<caption>The famous Waimea falls, near the top of the canyon.</caption>
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<caption>There is a trail from the top, all the way down into the canyon. It goes down, and down, and down, and down.
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<caption> The trail is very steep so the old folks gave up after a while and turned around.
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<caption>A particularly striking specimen of the Hawaiian wild chicken</caption>
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<caption>Next day we took a boat tour on a 65-foot catamaran, with the objectives of seeing the Na Pali coast and some whales. The Na Pali coast is very steep and is accessible only by boat and helicopter.
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<caption>Boarding the boat.</caption>
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<caption>Blue seas with big waves.</caption>
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<caption>It was windy.  Hennie bought a hat that could be tied on.</caption>
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<caption>Our boat looked like this one.</caption>
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<caption>When we approached the Na Pali Coast, there were big waves.  Some passengers were seasick (but they had foolishly drunk a lot of Mai Tais). A particularly big wave dropped the boat out from under us, leaving my legs and body in the air, but I was still holding onto the rail.  Someone's ankle was injured, and the captain decided not to brave these waves,  so we turned back before seeing the Na Pali Coast.  </caption>
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<caption> 
We did see a lot of whales, though, blowing and splashing their tails spectacularly. The best time of year to see the Na Pali Coast is July and August.
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<caption>It was a sunset and dinner cruise. The captain pulled near shore for dinner.  A burly young
Hawaiian deckhand dove 35 feet deep to try to tie the boat to an underwater mooring.  But the winds were too strong to hold the boat in position long enough to tie the rope. So the motor stayed on during dinner.
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<caption>Hennie in the sunset</caption>
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<caption>It's about to go down.</caption>
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<caption>There it goes!</caption>
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<caption>Gone!</caption>
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<caption>Back on land, the moon shone through the palm trees.</caption>
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<caption>Next day, we took a one-hour helicopter tour with pilot Miguel and six passengers, including us.  I did not take any photos from the helicopter, as we received a DVD with lots of videos of all the islands.
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<caption>The LavaLava Beach Club.  I pinched myself to see if I was dreaming.  Beautiful beach, palm trees, soft couches, tables, craft beers, wine, nachos with extra guacamole.
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<caption>Down the beach from the LavaLava club, on the way to the Marriot.</caption>
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<caption>A twin-hulled Hawaiian canoe.  This was for local use,
not a long-distance canoe.</caption>
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<caption>Hawaiian wood carver</caption>
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