Avocados grow on trees! and other news from Hawaii

lava!, originally uploaded by abmatic.

At last! i have uploaded photos from my Hawaii trip. You can see the full set of photos (ok, actually I tried to pare it down as much as i could) here, a condensed set here and a few favorites are below. We saw lava flowing into the sea, white, black and green (olivine!) beaches and sea turtles. We ate grass fed Hawaiian beef, tropical fruits and shave ice with fresh coconut and drank large quantities of kona coffee. The first day we had lunch with Phoebe in Waikiki and the next three days we stayed with Ingrid who was visiting at HVO in Volcano National Park. Then we spent two days sitting on the beach and two days sitting around on our porch looking out over the ocean. It was warm and wonderful and in strong contrast to the 30knt winds and 40 degree temps in chicago right now (where i am sitting in the airport-- almost home!) and thats not even cold for Chicago...

anyway on to the photos

Green Sand Beach


Punaluu as a storm was coming in. This beach was 100% shattered basalt and entirely black.


Sea Turtles! There were a bunch of them hanging out at Punaluu


Punaluu





Waipio Valley


Sunset from the porch