Dinesh's photos with the keyword: Hili

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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you. ... (Not sure who wrote this quote)

Exploring Lava rocks, and sand

21 Dec 2018 1 134
On a rainy, misty day scienceviews.com/islands/hawaiianrocks.html The black sand that makes up the famous Hawaiian black sand beaches is made out of basalt. These beaches can form rapidly when molten lava meets the cold ocean water in an explosive confrontation. The shattered volcanic rock is further broken down as it is smashed together by the waves. Black sand beaches can be relative short lived. This photo shows the black sand of Maui's Pa'iloa beach.

Ferns, ferns.....

21 Dec 2018 1 106
Within the city of Hilo, average rainfall varies from about 130 inches a year near the shore to as much as 200 inches upslope. The wettest part of the island, with a mean annual rainfall exceeding 300 inches, lies about 6 miles upslope from the city limits. A fern is any one of a group of about 20,000 species of plants classified in the phylum or division Pteridophyta, also known as Filicophyta. The group is also referred to as polypodiophyta, or polypodiopsida when treated as a subdivision of tracheophyta (vascular plants).

Road side view

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Lava rock and a litte vegetation

Nene -- The Hawaiian National Bird

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nene_(bird) It doesn't know -- we put the road there! The nene, also known as nēnē and Hawaiian goose, is a species of bird endemic to the Hawaiian Islands. The official bird of the state of Hawaiʻi, the nene is exclusively found in the wild on the islands of Oahu, Maui, Kauaʻi, Molokai, and Hawaiʻi. The Hawaiian name nēnē comes from its soft call

Lua Manu Pit/crater Bottom

Lua Manu Pit/crater Wall

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauna_Loa On a cloudy, rainy day. There is nothing seeing, but the feeling the wobbling of legs when on stands on the edge!

Live dangerously

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauna_Loa With least tremor next time, he will land more than 200 feet in the pit, but he knows not! He was born there!

Lua Manu Pit/crater

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauna_Loa It was a cloudy, windy day. Even otherwise I take 2, 3 or more shots just to have at least one good shot. But then having uploaded, I can't delete images. Thanks to Ipernity, they allow me to upload as many as I want! Thanks Ipernity

Lua Manu crater / Survival and bareness

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauna_Loa