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South Point and Green Sand Brach are great I used to do cliff jumping at South Point, but now Iʻm getting too old for that, lol. And if you are not careful, you end up in Antarctica. I wanted to go back and hike to Green Sands Beach, but the weather is awful this wet season with a lot of rain...

I just returned from a quick overnighter at Halapē, one of the coolest beach backcountry sites in Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park. No one else picked up a permit, so I had the entire place to myself. To get there, I hiked about 10 miles across lava. Usually, this is no big deal, but we had a...

Today, I finished my last trail in Hawaiʻi Volcanoes NP that I havenʻt done before. I finally hiked all few hundred miles of trails. I should start over again, lol. But I think I will do some off-trail explorations in the next few weeks. I went to Kamakaiʻa Hills again, this time from the...

Call me crazy, but honestly , I really enjoyed this long trek!! I hiked 19.3 miles across the lava to one of the last destinations in the park, which I have not hiked until today. I always had the Kamakaiʻa Hills on my radar, but no matter where you start this hike, it is an 18-20 mile hike...

Here in Hawaiʻi Volcanoes NP, it is a bit different: when you go backpacking and hiking in the backcountry, they warn you that you could encounter unexploded ordnance and encourage you to report it. The army did use the backcountry as a bombing range in the 1940s, long before it was added to the...

On my way to work, I had a clear morning view of Kilauea Crater and Mauna Loa

The Ghost Tree of the Kaʻu Desert

the ōhia trees are starting to bloom

and even more rainbow the past few days and weeks

exactly, thatʻs what I always say when I see them

Thanks The good thing is there is always something to see here in the rainforest

this piggy showed up on the trail next to me. The wild pigs are here everywhere, and you usually encounter a few on your hike

When the weather is really gloomy in the rainforest, I only focus on small details on my walks. There is a lot to see and explore. And Iʻm sort of obsessed with taking pictures of mosses and ferns curled up fern fronds Young curled up Hapuʻu fern: the fluffy yellow-brown stuff is called...

rainy sunset, Hawaiʻi Volcanoes NP Morning Rainbow, Hawaiʻi Volcanoes NP

That is the closest I have seen to a sunset in a few weeks. We are in the wet season, and it is usually foggy, misty, and rainy every day. So sunsets are rare in the rainforest during this time of the year.

Morning Rainbow on my way to work today Afternoon Rainbow, on my way from work back to the car parking lot a mile away

Hiking during this time of the year means hiking with rainbows I love the wet season here on the Big Island

Iʻm checking out the ground subsidence, cracks, and sinkholes from last week's earthquake swarm

thank you

and itʻs rainbow season again