After one hundred and forty-nine inches of Hilo’s one hundred and fifty inches of rainfall the weather finally cleared and we saw the mountains for the first time.

The Hot Bits.

Lava Tube

Earthquake!

Locked In

Volcano letting off steam

Lava Arch

Steam me up Scotty

And Behind Crater number 2 we have……

The Rainforest Bits.

The Flowers.

The Observatory.

At thirteen thousand seven hundred and ninety-six  feet, the last five thousand on five miles of dirt road, we were not allowed to drive our hire car to the summit. So here are the pictures we would have taken if we had driven to the top, which we naturally did not, did we.

EXCLUDES SILLY AUSTRALIANS