Big Island

I am so unbelievably behind on our blog.  There are so many things that have happened this past month, I'm going to have to back track to the end of June when we decided to spend a few days on Big Island.....

You would think living 4 years on O'ahu we would have done a lot of exploring the other islands of Hawaii, but its sad to say that we hadn't.  So we decided to spend 3 days on Big Island at Camp Kilaeua.  Boy did we have a fun filled 3 days.  Big Island is so beautiful.  It seemed different to O'ahu but still lovely as ever.  We saw waterfalls, a black sand beach, Kona Temple, a valcano and plenty of beautiful landmarks.  Here are a few photos of our journeys.

Rainbow Falls - you can slightly see the rainbow in the bottom left hand of the waterfall.  It was obviously better in real life!







'Akaka Falls - a 442 feet waterfall




Kona Temple


Lava landscape

















Entrance to the lava tubes

Inside the lava tubes











We are so glad that we got to make a small trip to the Big Island.  It was so much fun.  We are glad we were able to make some great family memories here.

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