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Approaching Hawai'i (aka the Big Island)
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The Kohala Mountains, with Mauna Kea in the distance
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It looks like the Serengeti, but it's actually a lava flow near Waikoloa
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Jaspa and some friends on the lava flow
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Entrance to a lava tube
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Looking down on the Wiapi'o Valley
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Look who we found at Wiapi'o
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Ouli Gulch, on the Kohala Mountain Road
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Sound advice
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View of Kilolo Bay from the Kohala Mountain Road
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Hualalai volcano and Kilolo Bay
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Looking north towards Maui
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Late afternoon over Kilolo Bay
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Palm tree sunset
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See, it really does look like the Serengeti
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Rainbow over Mauna Kea
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Couldn't stop taking photos of this sunset
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The last one, I promise!
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Clouds stream up onto the Saddle Road from Hilo
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Sometimes it's worth getting up early!
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Our ride awaits
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No doors on the helicopter... Sue's a bit nervous!
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Dodging the rainshowers
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The beginning of the lava flows
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No steaming lava, but the view is still amazing
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Possibility of this stretch of road ever being used again?
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Smoke/steam issuing from the surface of the lava flow
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The cooling surface of the lava produces all sorts of strange and tortuous shapes
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Is there an orange glow coming from that volcanic vent?
