Driving to Champagne Pools near the Easternmost point of the Hawai’ian Islands.

People frenzy taking picture of Halema’uma’u night glow show. Enjoy!

Watch and learn how the world is a big canoe and how to best make a canoe out of the Koa tree (excerpt). Thanks for the permission, guys!

Here’s a neat little outflow of Pahoehoe lava into one of the “twin craters” at Ka’u Desert Trail. I would call this the “chewing gum” accident.

By the way, the beeping noise in the background that you hear is my SO2-meter getting “a bit elevated levels” as the hike is downwind from the currenly active vent at Halema’uma’u.

Live commentary from Park Ranger Dino of the Transit of Venus projected on a backlit small-scale telescope. Inside the museum, there was also a live feed on computer screens from the Mauna Kea Observatory, which we understand was really crowded.

Short excerpt from the road trip Kona-Coast to Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park.

This is Hapuna Beach State Park, one of the best rated beaches in the world according to leading travel magazines and locals alike…

The Bellagio fountain is at its best at dusk! Enjoy!

I wish I had won the lottery to the big wave in Arizona (to read in German how to obtain a permit, read http://www.lalasreisen.de/amerika/html/wavepermits.html. For those who prefer English check the Arizona Bureau of Land Management BLM).

See my blog on thoughts about this sad or perhaps justified measure.