Blogs from Big Island, Hawaii, United States, North America - page 16

21st continued… Once again it’s raining! But not to be deterred we arrive at the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park and called at the visitor’s centre, looked at the exhibits and picked up a map of the crater drives and look outs. We also found out that due to volcanic activity you cannot drive right the way round the Kilauea Volcano anymore, but the lookouts were still open so off we went to find them. Our first stop was at the end of the road, at the Jaggar Museum which has fabulous views over the Kilauea Caldera. This is a vast area of old lava flows and the Halema’uma’u crater which was smoking away. It was a great site, not as impressive as Mt. Bromo on Java, but great never the less. It had also stopped raining, ... read more

Geo: 19.7297, -155.09Today we arrived in Hilo Hawaii! We woke up around 7 and went out on the balcony. It was a nice day with some low clouds but we were able to see the island of Hawaii in the distance. We were set to dock around 9:30 so we still had a little while before we arrived.We met the girls at Beach Blanket Buffet for breakfast at 9:00. By this time we were alongside the shore line. It began to rain pretty hard. Since Hilo is the rainiest city in the world, this was expected. Hilo receives on average 120" of rain per year. The ship docked early but it took a little while for the local officials to clear the ship and they sounded the all ashore at about 10:30.Our shore excursion was set ... read more

On Sunday, March 25, Tom and I took a short flight from Honolulu to Kona on "the Big Island" of Hawaii. Our first impression upon arrival was that we were landing on the moon! This is because the airport is built on a huge field of lava that gives it a bare, moon-like, appearance. We discovered that Hawaii is an island of 5 volcanoes, 3 of them now extinct. Kilauea is still very active, and because of this, smoke, or what the locals call "vog"( volcano smog), covers the southern part of the island, as you'll see from the photos.(Note: There are 50 photos in all, so please scroll down to the bottom of this page and go on to subsequent pages to see them all.) We also learned that the island is very agricultural, growing ... read more

We went to the Big Island of Hawaii in August 2011. It was our second trip to Hawaii, the first time 8 years ago when we went to Maui and Kauai. This time we were spending 10 days on the Big Island. It was a long flight to Kona from NYC with a stop over in LA. (I should add we were with a 2 year old who handled the flight better than the adults did). But there is nothing like the feeling of arriving in Hawaii. It really is a place all to it's own and one that I could live permanently. This was the review I posted on trip advisor when we came back! August 9th...arrived at 4:30pm after long fights from url=http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUrl?from=ShowTopic&url=%2FTourism-g60763-New_York_City_New_York-Vacations.htmlNYC and url=http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUrl?from=ShowTopic&url=%2FTourism-g32655-Los_Angeles_California-Vacations.htmlLA. Went to Walma... read more

This is just for Waipio Valley, and look out in the Kahala coast of the Big Island of Hawai'i... read more