Our hotel - a studio apartment/condo in Hilo. - Tue 24 Aug 2004 05:58:28 PM View from our room - Tue 24 Aug 2004 05:58:54 PM Driving up the coast of the Big Island of Hawaii, north of Hilo - Wed 25 Aug 2004 08:41:38 AM A scenic overlook from the highway, with a view of Hilo and the bay - Wed 25 Aug 2004 08:39:31 AM The town of Hilo is on the right - Wed 25 Aug 2004 08:39:57 AM This winding road, which we found by following the arrow on a sign labeled "scenic drive", was right off the highway. It took us right into the jungle. - Wed 25 Aug 2004 08:51:05 AM Looking the other direction on the same road - Wed 25 Aug 2004 08:51:19 AM We pulled off the side of the road & followed a narrow trail down to the water... the views were nothing short of incredible. The trail was quite narrow & there was a steep cliff off to the right... this sign actually advised us to keep to the mo - Wed 25 Aug 2004 09:15:48 AM abl - Michele taking a picture of Joel - Wed 25 Aug 2004 09:01:09 AM Joel taking a picture of Michele - The trail led all the way down to the rocky beach - Wed 25 Aug 2004 08:54:43 AM aam - Wed 25 Aug 2004 08:56:28 AM abi - abk - abm - abx - abz - aan - Wed 25 Aug 2004 09:00:19 AM abn - abo - aas - Wed 25 Aug 2004 09:07:27 AM abq - abu - abv - abw - After we left the "scenic drive", we headed towards the center of the Big Island. At the top of the mountain, way in the distance, you can see an astronomical observatory. - Wed 25 Aug 2004 09:49:56 AM A slightly closer in view of the observatory - If you look closely at the shorter palm trees in this picture, you'll see they're virtually flat. We live in Florida, and see palm trees every day, but hadn't seen any like this before. - Wed 25 Aug 2004 10:38:37 AM View of the southernmost coast of the Big Island, near the town of Punalu'u, South of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park - Another view of the coastline on the southernmost part of the Big Island - Southern Coast of the Big Island - In Hawaiian, "wiki" means "quick", which makes this a Hawaiian quickie quickie mart. - Thu 26 Aug 2004 08:55:05 AM The Wiki Wiki mart may have a clever name, but the facade isn't exactly fancy. Or clean. - Thu 26 Aug 2004 08:54:47 AM Hawaiian gas is EXPENSIVE - Wed 25 Aug 2004 11:18:38 AM We had pastries at "The Southernmost Bakery in the USA" - This is the Pacific Wings Airline check in desk, where we checked in for our flight to Maui. - Thu 26 Aug 2004 09:19:23 AM The Pacific Wings Air terminal at the Hilo Airport. - Thu 26 Aug 2004 09:20:08 AM
