Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Hawaii - beautiful Hawaii!

Just a few of our favorite things from Hawaii ~ our trip was so much fun but now I miss my whale friends! Saw them everyday with their babies. What a great 40th anniversary! I took over 300 pictures, so this is just a sampling of them!


Out in front of the Maui Marriot resort on Maui. Notice the volcanic rock..
The largest banyan tree in the world is located at Lahaina Maui and this is just a portion of it. It all wouldn't fit in my lens.
This is taken at one of the ports on Maui
One of our green sea turtle friends. Isn't he cute. This was at the Aquarium tour..
Out on our cruise, love the sunset..

but the best part was seeing all of these guys or girls! They spanked the water with that tail and it was so loud!  Totally amazing and cool..
 We drove to Hana in a day and saw the black sand beaches.. The little girls reminded me of my cute little girls having fun on the beach!!
One of the waterfalls on our drive to and from Hana.
 Amazing black sand beaches and lava rock..
The lava flow on the island of Hawaii, notice the different colors - much to learn in that department.
This is only a partial sample of the crater at the volcanos lip. I had my new zoom lens on and couldn't get the whole crater. There are people walking down in the crater, but that wasn't for us.  Steam is still rising everywhere we walk and we just saw a video with that crater full of lava! Yikes..

Beautiful falls all over the islands.

 Whales from Bruce's vantage point in the airplane and then one of the many falls he saw on his trip. Can you see them?
More falls...
 We took a walk in the rain to go see these falls and it was so worth it.

Bruce after his flight in the airplane. I hope we can go back again someday....we do LOVE it there! ALOHA islands.....