Bits from the Big Island

I'm sharing photos in no particular order here, from the past 2-3 weeks.....

Zebra doves are common here...dozens eat the bird seed on the ground below the hotel's feeders...

There are daily beautiful sunsets seen from the pool area of the hotel....many are a deep red due to the haze from the volcanos further east...but this one was a golden delight....

John and Cathe, Hawaii and ukelele enthusiasts, were guests for a couple weeks...

Me and a small flowering tree...these get quite large and can be a much deeper yellow...

These small ones are outside the local Walmart!

Ruben does the nightly tiki torch lighting ritual...he blows a conch horn while a guest lights the tiki torches around the front of the hotel...this guest, Rebecca, was from Australia....

The plumeria grows abundantly here, in white, pale pink, deep fuchsia pink, yellow...these are the flowers used for leis....

The hibiscus here in Hawaii are extremely abundant, in pink, orange, yellow, and white.

Not an overly flattering shot but hey it's proof that we made it, by kayak, to the Capt. Cook Monument, Despite being dumped into the crashing ocean waves -- twice -- before even getting away from the sea wall where we were setting off from.....

Our landing spot, on lava rock....and a peek of Kealakekua Bay...

Orange-spotted day geckos are very common here, and so darn cute...they hang around the "open-air" front office of the hotel. They look iridescent in bright green, a bit of blue, and the orange spots on their rump.