Another Trip to the Big Island

A few days ago I was assigned to go to the Big Island for another job. Six of us, altogether, boarded the plane one afternoon. Again, my point-and-shoot saved the day. While waiting for take-off and trying not to fall asleep, I practiced taking stealth photos. Holding it up in the air and pointing it toward the seat behind me, I snapped a few shots and amazingly got some decent images of two of my co-workers diligently working out details on the job ahead of us.

Even now they don't know I got these shots, but they will as soon as I get them printed and make a collage with them.

After we finished the job the next day, we had enough time to do a little sightseeing, which was nice because I haven't had the chance to get to the Big Island on my own this year. The first place we stopped is one of the black-sand beaches. I've heard so much about it and was glad we went there. All I can say now is, "been there, done that" and don't have to do it again. Interesting, but that's about it.

Then we headed over to Volcano Park. This image below shows one of the craters with some small volcano action in the far back. There are walking trails along the rims on each side, and I saw people walking right through the center of the crater toward the opening way back. I don't know how far they could actually go, but it would have been interesting to take the walk if we had had time.

A closer view of the volcanic steam spewing from the eruption.

We continued on through the park to the end of the road. From this point you can hike another three miles to the edge of the island. At that point, the lava pours into the ocean and from what I've been told, if you hike out there at night you can see the glow of the lava. During daylight it's too far away to see it.

It was a "hard day's work", but a great day's sightseeing. God created the most amazing world, and it was a blessing to be able to see some more of it first hand.