We had our first lazy day on Sunday. We read by the pool, we bought sandwiches and headed back out to Airport Beach for some more reading, snorkeling, and swimming. Then back to the B&B for some hot-tubbing. Finally, we caught dinner at Aloha Mixed Plate again.
During the night, my stomach felt a bit strange...
I awoke and threw up.
No matter, we had to make an early drive to the airport Monday morning to catch an early plane to the big island of Hawaii. We bagged a muffin and yogurt before we left and I managed to eat them at the airport and didn't feel too awful. But around half-way through the flight, I started feeling nauseous again, I felt really hot, and I began to sweat profusely. I grabbed an air sickness bag just in case, but fortunately, did not have to use it.
Once we claimed our bags, I collapsed on a bench while Lori rented the car. While I made a meager attempt to doze in the car, Lori drove on to the Kilauea Lodge, which used to be a YMCA camp in the 80s before Albert Jeyte bought the place. Albert was a make-up artist for the Magnum P.I. series and met his soon-to-be wife Lorna at a party following his Emmy for his work. They returned to Hawaii and fired the cook soon after they converted the YMCA camp into a B&B. Albert then flew off to France to learn how to cook and he's been the head chef ever since.
But that didn't stop me from throwing up in the restaurant's bathroom when we arrived.
Our room wasn't yet ready, so I slept in the back seat while Lori drove and walked around Volcanoes National Park. Once the room was ready, Lori plopped me into bed and then explored some more on her own.
I slept until the next morning.
On Tuesday morning, I tried a bite of pancakes to see if I could keep that down. I then slept the rest of the morning while Lori went out exploring. In the afternoon, I managed to do a little reading and take in a hot tub between naps. And go out to dinner with Lori. And eat it!
We awoke to rain Wednesday morning. It was a perfect day for reading in bed.
But after a couple of hours, the rain broke and we drove up to various viewpoints around the crater and later caught some lunch at the Volcano House. Exhausted, I asked to be plopped back in bed and Lori went off for some more exploring. Upon her return, we hit the hot tub.
That evening we treated ourselves to a scrumptious Christmas Eve dinner at the lodge's restaurant: a fitting ending to a marvelous trip.
The Kilauea Lodge |
Kilauea Caldera |
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Mauna Loa (the worlds largest mountain by volume) looms
beyond the Jagger Museum |
Mauna Loa |
Halema'uma'u Crater |
Halema'uma'u Crater |
Halema'uma'u Crater |
Halema'uma'u Crater |
Halema'uma'u Crater |
And life emerges from death |
Photo by Lori Heyman |
Ants maul a mantis |
Lori above the Kilauea Caldera and Halema'uma'u
Crater |
Steam vents |
A view to Kilauea Iki across the Kilauea Caldera |
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Kilauea Iki |
Kilauea Iki, with Halema'uma'u Crater smoking behind |
Another view of Kilauea Iki |
The spout of Kilauea Iki is 30 meters across! |
Kilauea Iki |
Note the people on the trail below the black lava |
A trail goes down it |
The crumpled floor of Kilauea Iki |
Lori practices modern art |
Lori on the floor |
A steam vent |
A trail across the crater |
Devastation trail |
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The spatter zone |
The entrance to the Thurston lava tube |
Lori and Myrt at the end of the road |
A rough patch of lava along the Chain of Craters Road |
Lori captures the scene along the Chain of Craters Road |
A walkway along the Chain of Craters Road that shows
the different lava runs |
The lava runs to the sea |
Different lava shapes and flows |
The gas from Pu'u O'o and a rainbow |
Whoopsie! The road is taken out by the 1983 lava flow |
No kidding |
Interesting shapes in the lava |
More interesting shapes |
Find the elephant |
Note the lava flows |
Lori at the end of the world |
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Dicranopteris linearis frond detail |
Dicranopteris linearis frond |
Dicranopteris linearis frond unfurls |
Dicranopteris linearis |
A tiny fern in the moss |
Bill (and his stomach) happy to be in the rain forest
(with rain!) |
Lori gets rained on in the rain forest |
Hydrangea |
Fern detail |
Vaccinium dentatum, I think |
A very cool moss, or fern? |
A different fern, from the top side |
And now, for something completely different. These are 10-second exposures taken while driving on Crater Rim Drive, coming back from the Jagger Museum after an evening of stargazing! Just to be clear, I wasn't driving, Lori was!
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Light art |
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You can see these photos in a slideshow, view them on a map, or download the GPS tracks for Tuesday or Wednesday.
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