Picture this..

.. well it's a rainy Saturday morning, but I don't have much of any interest to write, so I thought I'd post up a few more photos from my Hawaii trip... here we go.


This was the view from our balcony on the "Big Island" in Hawaii. Our condo was about 5 miles inland, giving us great views of the volcanos.


This is what you saw all along the roadside on the west side of the island. Basically the roads were built on top of old lava beds. Locals and tourists gather white sea shells from the beach and create various phrases (Mostly "I love..." stuff) by arranging the shells on the old lava bed.



A view of the mountains around Waimea, an inland town. Much of the northwest part of the island is covered in stunning green grass and rolling hills. The Big Island actually has one of the largest cattle ranches in the country, bigger than any of those in Texas. Most of the red meat you eat on any of the Hawaiian islands comes from this ranch.


A view of one of the coolest places I've been. This is on the north coast of the island, at the bottom of those cliffs is the most stunning black sand beach I've ever seen. There's a challenging trail that takes you down to the beach, it almost takes 30 minutes to get down there. Well worth the hike back up.


...so this concludes my brief picture tour of the Big Island. See what happens when I'm bored?