Mauna Kea and Volcano National Park, January 20 - 21, 2012

Sunset and stargazing at the Onizuka Visitor Center, up at 7,000' on the side of Mauna Kea, and an abbreviated trip through Volcano National Park.
After we swapped the rental car for one that worked, we visited Lava Tree State Park in the late afternoon.

Tree	Saddle Road and cinder cones	Mauna Kea in the evening	Looking back toward Hilo
The road to Mauna Kea	Determined tree	Tree	Cinder cones on Mauna Kea
Last rays of the evening	Mauna Kea cinder cones	Clouds over Hilo	Sunset
Apparently a real road hazard!	Venus after sunset	Orion over Onizuke Visitor Center	Milky Way with Orion in the middle
Milky Way over Mauna Kea	Milky Way	Hawaiian quilt - anthurium design	Hawaiian quilt - orchid design
Big fish	Overgrown goldfish?	Kilauea crater	Floor of Kilauea crater
Steaming hilside at Volcanoes National Park	Kilauea volcano	Kilauea panorama	Moss covered tree
Wild Orchid	Largest single source of SO2 in the U.S.	Kilauea Crater	Kilauea Crater
Ohelo bush and berries (related to the cranberry)	Pu'u Pua'i with Kilauea steaming in the background	Ohi'a Lehua blossoms	Fern tree fiddlehead
Fern tree	Thurston Lava Tunnel	Thurston Lava Tunnel	Thurston Lava Tunnel
Tree fern	Fern tree fiddlehead	Ferns	Aerial roots on mature Ohi'a Lehua tree
Ohi'a Lehua canopy	Ohi'a Lehua trees	Big vines	You are here...
Lava Tree	Lava Tree	Tiny plants on lava tree	Tree mold in Lava Tree State Park (Lava that cooled around burning tree trunk)
Ulehe fern fiddlehead	Ulehe fern unfurling	Ulehe fern fiddlehead	Rattlesnake ginger
Monstera bud	Parasitic growth on Ohi'a Lehua tree	Mango trees along the road	Sunset
Sunset	Sunset	Eroding lava beach	Local house
Italian restaurant in Pahoa

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