The Big Island

On our flight over to the Big Island we saw a beautiful sunrise. The pictures do not do justice to the beauty we witnessed.

We got off the plane and drove straight to the Volcano park. Grandpa woke up right as we got there. I must say that this picture does not due justice to the normaly handsome young man granpda is. Him allowing us to take this picture just shows the charming sense of humor he has.

Stacey, Grandpa, and I infront of one of the craters. You can see one of the plumes rising in the background.

These two pictures are in front of and in Thurston's lava tube. It is a place where the lava flow made a tunnel into the ground, it is pretty cool. We were able to walk about 100 yards into it.

Another big crater that still is smoking from part of it.

Here we are all 6 of us.

We are just having a good time!

Anniston's mode of transportation to go on the hikes when we couldn't take the stroller. She seemed to enjoy the ride.

We walked out a bit to get close to a part where the lava was coming out and hitting the ocean.

Here is a better picture of all the steam, smoke, and ash. It was pretty cool. There was constant steam from the lava hitting the water and ever few seconds we would see a big blast of black ash being thrown into the air.

The road you can see use to be a main road that was traveled often...until the lava flowed over it. You can kind of see the mass of back that covers the road.

This is Anniston Before.....

.....This is Bethany after....

The two pictures above are of Rainbow falls. It was a pretty waterfall.

The above three picture are at Akaka falls. I think they said that it is 481 feet high! This was a beautiful little hike to see this water fall.

This is the Kona Temple. It was closed when we drove over to it.

Me and the Sisters..Bethany, Rachel, and Adam at a black sand beach.

Stacey, Bethany, Rachel, and Adam on the black sand beach.

Stacey took a picture at dusk on the black sand beach.

What can we say? The Big Island wore us all out! Here we are waiting to go back to Oahu at midnight and our flight was delayed. What a fun two day trip!