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Daily Travel Photo - Big Island, Hawaii

Posted on May 12, 2008
Categories: Daily Photo, Hawaii.

Turtle sunning itself on the Punalu’u black sand beach.

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Daily Travel Photo - Mauna Kea, Hawaii

Posted on April 27, 2008
Categories: Daily Photo, Hawaii.

This photo is the shadow of Mauna Kea, the highest point in the Pacific, being cast onto the clouds at sunset. Mauna Kea is home to the largest telescopes in the world. The reason they sit on Mauna Kea is because the peak usually is well above the clouds, as you can see in this photo.

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See Ya Sydney

Posted on April 11, 2008
Categories: Australasia, Australia, Daily Photo, Hawaii, Pacific/Oceania, Site News.

Sydney, its been nice, but I think we should see other cities.

The last few days have been an exercise in frustration. I’ve spent hours trying to upload video only have it end up in failure, I couldn’t get iMovies to export my video, and made a big screw up with Google. There are limits on how much time I can spend on photos and the website, however. So in a few hours, I’m off to Queensland.

I managed to get a really cheap car to rent from Sydney to Cairns, which leads me to believe that most rentals go the other way. I’ll have nine says to make the trip, which should be plenty of time. The trip will take me to Brisbane, and four world heritage sites: Gondwana Rainforests of Australia, Fraser Island, the Great Barrier Reef, and the Wet Tropics of Queensland.

Sydney to Cairns seems to be the road trip people make in Australia. It is also no small endeavor. To give you an idea of the distance, it is like driving from Jacksonville, Florida to the north shore of Lake Superior in Ontario, or in Europe, like driving from the middle of Turkey to northern Ukraine.

Australia overlaid on the US

I’m ready to leave Sydney. I have nothing against the city, I’ve just stayed here too long. I need to get moving. I should be in Brisbane in 2-3 days. I know I have some readers there, so if you want to get together for a beer or something, send me an email.

I’ll be doing periodic updates the next nine days when I can find Internet, but I wouldn’t expect too much. Given how poor the internet has been at this hostel, I’m not sure it will be any worse.

As you can see below, during the next week I’m showing photos I took from my previous trips, just to do something different. The image quality wont be quite as good because I didn’t have a very good camera, but it will let you see something a bit different than what I’ve been showing you.

I’ve pretty much given up on everything I’ve sent from Bali. It seems that no one has gotten a post card, or at least I haven’t been told of anyone getting a post card.

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Daily Travel Photo - Big Island, Hawaii

Posted on April 10, 2008
Categories: Daily Photo, Hawaii.

An abandoned wind farm near South Point on the Big Island of Hawaii

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Daily Travel Photo - Maui, Hawaii

Posted on April 4, 2008
Categories: Daily Photo, Hawaii.

This is an endangered Silversword plant near the summit of Haleakala volcano on the island of Maui on Hawaii. The Silversword is only found near the summit of Haleakala. When white people first came to Hawaii, they would often dig up a silversword and take it back as a trophy for climbing up to the summit. That plus the grazing of goats threatened the silversword with extinction. When the plant flowers, it creates a stalk about 1 meter high with hundreds of small blooms.

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