I'm in Hawaii now

Ok, Its been a little while, but once I was done with the summer season in Alaska, I went back to Bellingham for a few weeks.  During that time, there were some Northern Lights.  My mother and I went down to the lake to look out over a place with less lights, and we saw these sights:

And a bit more streaks to the east...

A few days later I went down to Mexico to get on my sailboat, and spent three weeks working on getting my boat up and running, and doing some surfing and sailing.  But then I flew to Hawaii to work on the Safari Explorer for a few weeks.  I'm there (here?) now.  On my way in, I took a little short hopper plane (a Cessna Caravan) over to Molokai, and here's a picture of Diamond Head.

Its kinda neat its a crater.  with a playfield in the center.  

Then the flight went over to Molokai, and this was the west side.

And the southwest side.  I stopped at this harbor when I was sailing around in 2012.  It had a bunch of Bees in it.

At Molokai the sunrise was great, with a palm tree.

We got the ship ready for a few days, and then we got guests, which we took to the Halawa valley.  I had sailed past this valley in 2012, and saw a big shark nearby.  Abe will remember this.

In the valley there was great rainbows all over.

And the Taro plants, which they make food out of.  

Here's another look at the taro fields, like a rice paddy.

The big trees have domains of greenery and they don't quite overlap, so its like a geologic map

There are these Elephant ear plants, which are giant.

Here's a better look at the leaf domains...

I found a surprising amount of fungus.  

We walked to a waterfall, but it was pretty good river flow, so we had to be careful to get across the rivers.

Of course the flowers here are beautiful!

We headed from Molokai to Maui, and found some whales...

And we had a great dolphin playing in the bow wake.  

We are now on Lanai, and then tomorrow we'll go to the big island, then play there for a few days until we get new guests on Sunday.