Hawaii--The Big Island

 The sunrise coming into the Big Island was amazing--notice the full moon and the sun shining on the top of volcano Mt. Mauna Loa (click on the picture to see snow on the top of the mountain).

 Off to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park for some fascinating sights and a chance to look at the active volcano Kilauea caldera. We couldn’t make the entire 11 mile loop trip around the caldera because of excessive sulfur dioxide and carbon dioxide levels in the air due to the volcano.

We visited a candy company, a Japanese garden, a macadamia nut orchard, and ended up at an orchid farm where the different kinds of orchids were amazing.