Close up of a single bloom from a Pink Ginger plant.

Full spray of Pink Ginger blooms.

Honolulu zoo. Feeding time. Note the baby chick being eaten.

Images 54-57 : Flowers in the Honolulu zoo.

Praying Mantis found in a park near-ish to the shore of Waikiki.

Images 61 - 67: Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. Steam vents with heavy sulfur dishcharge.

Hawaii Volcanoes National Park - Halema'uma'u crater as seen from the hotel in the park. I declined to walk that distance, as it seemed the terrain would get boring very quickly. We went on a shorter hike through a smaller crater, instead. Sulfur dioxide emitted from the Halema'uma'u Crater forms sulfuric acid and keeps vegetation from taking off.

Patrick at Steaming Bluff in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.

Close up of Halema'uma'u crater (we drove there). Note the sulfur discharge.

As much of Halema'uma'u crater as I could get in frame from close up. I will try to make a panorama shot from several images of the site.

Close up of mineral heavy old lava (pahoehoe lava).

View of ... Southern Shelf, maybe? You can see a more recent lava flow crossing the older flow that is the hills.

Descent to Thurston Lava Tube: fiddleheads of a giant fern tree.

Images 87-94 are shots of the crater we hiked through: Kilauea Iki. The Pu'u Pua'i cinder cone is reddish in hue. Several of the shots are of a large, bulging steam vent. Moss and Algae-like life were growing in where the moisture collected on the lava surface.

Images 112 - 17: Shots of lava from Kilauea.

Pali Point Park. VERY windy up here. I went here towards the end of my vacation. There should be a few more photos of this area in the future.

A baby wild pig is hiding in the vegetation! There had been 3 piglets rooting along the road's edge, but when I stopped and got out to get a picture, they withdrew to cover. This one stayed close enough that I could still find him. The others were invisible. Patrick claims that when he was growing up, the wild pigs were all black. John doesn't believe that. Regardless, the pigs are now certainly interbred with escaped domestic swine, and are multi-colored. This piglets siblings were spotted. One back and white, and the other tan and white.