Up one level Roger's Pictures

From the Big Island, February 13-16, 2015

Exploring another part of Hawaii - the Kohala Coast and the north end of the Big Island.


Strange clouds

Offering platform

Kapu - no entrance!

Dried up offering wrapper

Offering at Mailekini Heiau

Pu'kohola Heiau (Temple on the Whale Hill)

Pu'kohola Heiau (Temple on the Whale Hill) seen from Mailekini Heiau

Ripply clouds

Stone wall

Pu'kohola Heiau (Temple on the Whale Hill)

Poppies

In case you didnt know...

Lumber

Windy day at Lapakahi State Historical Park

Unfinished shelter

Fan palm thatch detail

Reconstructed homesite

Pili grass thatch detail

Offerings to the fishing god

Lava rock and broken coral beach

Broken coral

Hollowed out lava rock for drying salt

Clouds

Distant snow on Mauna Kea

Evening sky

Palms in the sunset

Green turtles resting on the beach

Who me?

Golden dewdrop

Petroglyphs explained

Petroglyphs explained

Petroglyphs explained

Bougainvillea

Here's looking at you!

Peacock

Peacock

Peacock

Peacock

Clouds

Yellow alder

Hibiscus

Hibiscus

Mandevilla

Checking out the view

Mandevilla

Hibiscus Tilraceus (Tri-Color Hau)

Oleander

Bottle brush tree

Double hibiscus

Hong Kong orchid tree

Hong Kong Orchid Tree

Fragrant Ixora

In the shade

Photographer at work

Detail

Taming the beast

pink flowers...

Bug eaten leaf

Giant spider creeps up on unsuspecting tourist...

Doing the turkey trot

Wild turkeys

Broken antenna

Bougainvillea

Bougainvillea

Bench

Lemon Lime Dracaena

Bug eaten leaves

Palm

Side road

View from Pololu Valley Overlook

View from Pololu Valley Overlook

View from Pololu Valley Overlook

Pololu Valley

Road hazard

Unused boat

Clouds

Kohala Coast

Kohala Coast

Grass and wild flowers

Lava field with grass and kiawe trees

Lava

Funky clouds

Waipio Valley

Abandoned building

Abandoned building detail

Abandoned building detail

Abandoned building

Kalopa Native Forest State Park and Forest Reserve

Moss detail

Fiddlehead

Azalea

Stilt roots

Fiddle heads

Kolea -- new leaves are pink

Tree fern

Fiddlehead

Unfurling...

On the edge...

Piles of logs just outside of the forest reserve

Fiddlehead

Shelfe fungus

Buttress roots

A type of ginger?

Plant detail

Hamakua Coast

Surf at Laupahoehoe

At Laupahoehoe

Statue by memorial to tsunami victims

Surf at Laupahoehoe

Surf at Laupahoehoe

Surf at Laupahoehoe

Quiet evening

Rising fog

Sunset

Strange cloud

Evening glow

Saffron Finch

Honu or green sea turtle

Tourist

Kohala Coast

Whale tail

Whale tail

Breeching humpback

Mother and baby breeching

Mth and baby humpbacks

Tail slapping

Splash

Distant breeching

Breeching whale

Whales

Glass-bottom boat

Tree

Petroglyph - man with paddle?

Petroglyph

Petroglyph

Petroglyphs

Petroglyphs

Petroglyphs

Petroglyphs

Mushrooms

Petroglyphs

Petroglyphs

Petroglyphs

Petroglyphs

Petroglyphs

Petroglyphs & kiawe

Blooming Kiawe tree

Pahoehoe lava

Tree

Sunset

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