Our tour bus	Nalu - our guide	A resort on Hawaii	At the coffee plantation
Coffee trees	Tree house!	Looking out over the plantation	Another view
Green coffee beans	Closer view	Endless stretches of lava rocks and scrub	The southern most point of the USA
An early settler	Another stop... this time for a snack	The shop	Between the palms
Who's behind that tree??	Arid...but some growth	The black sand beach	Another view of the black sand beach
A view along the beach	Stephanie on the rocks	It's really BLACK!	Another one of Stephanie
"It's a turtle!!"	Same turtle...	We only saw one turtle!	Lunch at the Volcano house!
Inside the lobby	The other side of the lobby	A volcano painting at the volcano house...appropriate, huh?	From the balcony
The following two rows are taken from the balcony of the volcano house
Crater views	Crater views	Crater views	Crater views
Crater views	Crater views	Crater views	Crater views
The cliff behind the Volcano House	Mauna Loa in the distance	Up close to a steam vent	Even closer!
Steam in the distance	The crater from another angle	Looking back toward Volcano House	The Jagger Museum
The Volcano House, from the other side of the Volcano	The crater	Down into the crater	More crater
Steam in the distance	More steam	Leaving the Museum	Hardened lava that has caved in
At the edge of the crater	The trail marker	Nothing will grow here for over 100 years	Desolation and steam
A hole into the earth	Looking down into the crater	The museum, from yet another side of the crater	An offering to the volcano
See the people... the crater is BIG	More steam	A crack into the earth	Layers of lava
The black flow is more recent	Looks like a plowed field	Another view of the crater	See the alligator?
Something growing...	A little vegetation	A lot of vegetation	In the only rainforest in the USA
The Thurston lava tube	It's a jungle out there!	More jungle	Ferns reaching for the sun
Into the tube	Views of the lava tube	The wall of the tube	Another view of the wall
The tube continues but we exited here	One last look into the crater	Into the crater	Stephanie and the free flower and the Orchid shop
Flower closeup 1	Flower closeup 2	The haze is from the crater	One more flower!
Rainbow Falls	Closer	From a different angle	And yet 1 more
Our bus	This obviously is not the dry side of the island	The Naha stone that young Kamehameha moved	Shrubs in animal shapes
More shrub animals	...and one last view of shrub animals	A school was destroyed on this point by a tsunami	Hawaiian grafitti
More grafitti	Lava tube entrance... leading up many miles to the volcano behind it	One last look at some grafitti

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