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Everything is Beautiful

Here are a few pictures snapped on a recent trip to the Big Island of Hawaii. No dramatic pics of spewing lava I’m afraid, but some mighty pretty images nonetheless.

Here we see my SO making like a Billy Goat and scampering across a field of jagged lava rock because “it looked like there was a kind of a trail”. There wasn’t so he made his own. Ok. Not such a pretty picture. But it’s my blog.

 

 

Along the same pile of rocks I came across this fragile looking piece of driftwood that looked like it might even be a branch of coral.

 

 

The day started out a very windy one as the whitecaps on the deep blue sea can attest.

 

 

So can the flags standing at attention.

 

Here’s the view from about 3500 feet above sea level. The wind was stronger up here and was really rocking me on my feet. It was in the 60’s at this altitude and the wind made it seem colder than that. I just love the way the there is nothing but green flowing down the mountain side until it blends into the blue of the Pacific.

 

 

In this shot you can see how the green turns into jet black in the distance before it reaches the sea. The black is a newer lava flow that hasn’t broken down into anything resembling soil yet. A dramatic reminder that the land under my feet is alive and still growing. And lest you think I only spend my time looking at the ground, check out that wildly dramatic sky!

 

 

From the following angle you can see in the distance the black outline of mountain with a bank of clouds well below its summit. This behemoth is the mountain known as Mauna Kea. There is a complex of astronomical observatories at its summit and is one of the few places in Hawaii that gets measurable snow fall.

 

 

Of course at journey’s end one must reward oneself for being an intrepid traveller. In this case the reward was Kobe Beef sliders with caramelized onions, brie, truffle aioli on brioche buns.