Oahu
Diamondhead - Oahu
Maui windfarm
Maui - sugarcane fields
Yeah! 2 1/2 months apart and now we are pastey white and back together in HI!
The beach in front of our place
Ahihi Kinau Natural Area Reserve - the last eruption on Maui in 1790 created this awesome spot
Where to snorkel?
Hhumahumanukanukaapuaa
Moray
Taco truck!
Secret Cove Beach
Secret Cove
Nibble
This water is warm!
Sunrise over Maui from our dive boat
It just kept getting better!
Molokini Crater (our dive site)
Not a bad way to start the day - this is about 7am
Heading down on the first dive
Butterflyfish (who?)
Cute little fish and crab hiding in the coral (with its polyps out)
Urchin with a little shrimp - can you find it? Look in the spines on the lower right and you will see a long black object with a white stripe on it - little shrimp!
Sea cucumbers and garden eels
Because these are more often found on plates than underwater, it was a treat to see this jack into the marine reserve. Hope it stays there.
White tip reef shark
Little box fish
Jay
Coral grouper - another fish that typically is more often found on people's plates rather than the water. Marine reserves sure are nice - too bad we don't have enough of them.
Hawaii has tons of butterflyfish I don't know!
The coral biologist is happy
Urchin
I am way more adorable in the water than on a plate
White mouth moray
Little juvenile wrasse
Second dive on an artificial reef (ship and tires) - Julie inspects...
Frogfish!
Frogfish face
Jay and the frogfish
Moray insdie the ship
Interesting coral species
Julie is happy to only be wearing one hood
I've got some spines stuck in my cheeks
More spines
Long snout
Ehhh...
The artificial reef
Jay hails the fish over
Hawaiian black-necked stilt (endangered species) - Kealia Pond National Wildlife Refuge
Stilts standing on one stilt
Black crowned night heron
Black-necked stilt
'Iao State Park (?) Natural Reserve (?) Whatever the title - is is a gorgeous spot in the West Maui Mountains
'Iao Needle
Beautiful little yellow flowers
Jay discovers the 'Iao Needle!
Breakfast in Maui
Do the fish stand a chance?
Lahaina - Banyan Tree
Lahaina Harbor
Honolua Bay - BIG surf
Jay hits the surf (hee hee)
Gnarly blowhole
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Holy shit!
Maui Brewing Company - Imperial IPA
Drive on the road to Hana
Jay gets strangled!
Cool forest
Crazy road to Hana
Road to Hana
Neat black sand beach
Pouring!
Beautiful natural arch - Waianapanapa State Park
Lava tubes
Keanae - gorgeous!
Keanae
Big waves!
Tidepool?
Sunset
You will DIE if you touch the water in Hawaii!
Beach in Wailea
Jay - the water wasn't as clear after all the rain!
Julie
humahumanukanukaapuaahah
Lovely fresh passionfruit juice
Papaya as co-pilot
Myna bird (introduced bird, badddd but funny)
snow plow
nice form
Happy surfer
Mai tai! Yummy!
Dinner in our room
Haleakala National Park
Silversword
I'iwi (red honeycreeper)
Native trees
Layers of eruptions
Native ferns
Native geranium
Cloud forest
In order to enter this protected land we had to go on a free guided tour through the National Park Service. It was a real treat to learn from a local about Hawaiian birds and plants. Many of the plants in this picture do not belong in Hawaii. Can you tell which ones?
Native cloud forest!
Native cloud forest
Red indicates new growth for these ferns
The first flower that locals have seen on this tree for 50 years (no flowers have ever been seen on it before!)
The only view of the crater we got at the top of Haleakala (10,000 ft we labored over climbing it in our car)
What a view!
Jay loves the view!
Silverswords (endangered plant)
Missing summit? Pouring rain....
