May 15th Molokai Hawaii

May 15th was a lovely beach day.  I photographed the sunrise at our condo, pictured some interesting birds at the Wastewater treatment plant and took pictures of East end beaches.  Just gorgeous!

      Sunrise at Wavecrest with Norfolk 

      Island Pines

      Hawaiian Coot? 

     Black necked stilt

      Coconuts on Puko'o beach

       Halawa beach

      Murphy beach sunset

May 14th Molokai sunset

This was a lazier day.  We didn't do much, and the sunset was just beautiful.

      Royal Poinciana tree.  This one was

       Fairly small.  There is also a Dwarf

       Poinciana, but it looked more like the

        Royal in my picture books.

       Molokai Sunset

May 12: Hana Highway Continued

We drove back along the Hana Highway on May 12th and stopped to view Honomanu Beach and an overlook, Ke'anae Peninsula with it's black lava shoreline and powerful waves, and an Arboretum with Eucalyptus trees and flowers.

     Honomanu Overlook

     Keanae

     Keanae

     Eucylptus trees

     Torch Ginger

     Taro Fields

Hana Maui beaches May 11th

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   Koki beach sunrise, Alua island in the background

 

          Koki beach

          Koki beach red wall

        Hamoa beach

           Hamoa beach

       Hamoa beach

          Hamoa beach

       Black sand beach by Bamboo Inn

       Black sand beach

       Black sand beach closeup

    Paul Fagan cross in Hana, weo  hiked there on a previous trip.

    Something to do while it was raining.

     Plumeria

       

Wailua Falls on the Hana Highway

Along the highway toward the Kipahulu district of Haleakala National Park, we stopped to view Wailua Falls along with lots of tour buses and cars.  I also spotted this unique torch ginger near the bridge by the falls.  Just beautiful.

             Wailua Falls

Hana Highway Maui Hawaii

May 9th.  I really like looking at colorful peacocks, although the birds are actually quite obnoxious at times.  So when we had the chance to photograph some, I took quite a few shots.

I spotted this gardenia.  The ones in my garden at home never look this good!  It helped that it had been raining earlier, so you can see some raindrops on the petals.

                  Gardenia

Often leis are made from the white and yellow plumeria or frangipani flower.  There are also many other colors, but I've mostly seen white and dark pink ones in Hawaii.  The flower has many other names, depending on their location in the world and they smell heavenly.  

For more information, I enjoyed looking at this website, even though it is a commercial site: http://www.allthingsfrangipani.com/frangipanis.html  I even brought back some perfume made from the blooms.

            Plumeria

The Hana highway has some gorgeous waterfalls.  These were photographed with a slow shutter and a tripod to create a dreamy look.

                   Puohokamoa Falls

Gardens in Kula Maui

We took some lovely, sometimes unusual, flower pictures in Kula, part way up the volcano.  This area is where the King protea come from, that are seen in dried flower arrangements.  There were lots of gazebos to look pretty. At the Enchanting Floral Gardens we even saw some chickens.  ( see the chick underneath)

        King protea

         Hibiscus

       Silk tree