Sunset photos from our balcony before heading to dinner in Kailua-Kona.

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After visiting the painted church, we continued down the hill to the coast and drove over to the Captain Cook Memorial at Kealakekua Bay. The memorial is across the bay,and currently inaccessible due to an environmental impact study on damage to the bay’s wildlife from all the boat bank kayak traffic in the bash the past several years.

More information here:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kealakekua_Bay

The surf hitting the shore was so intense, you could actually hear the water rocking the big rounded lava stones around as it flowed in and out with the waves…

At the far point of the bay, the crashing surf was extremely intense. These were taken with a 200mm zoom and then cropped to about 50% of the original frame:

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Beautifully painted Roman Catholic Church in the Captain Cook area of the Big Island.

See more information on the church here:
http://www.thepaintedchurch.org

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This park is in the Pun a region to the south of Hilo, and is easily missed, as there are no road signs to direct you to it.  It is an area where an ancient lava flow passed through a forest. The lava flowed up the sides of trees and cooled (killing the trees in the process, burning them off), and leaving behind these volume of lava. Interesting place, and also a nice walk through a tropical rain forest…

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We drove the Saddle Road passing between Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa heading over to Hilo from Kailua-Kona. Unfortunately, we had some foggy and rainy conditions on the downhill side into Hilo. We also got talking about the scenery near the top of the saddle (6800 feet), and forgot to take pictures of the lava fields, etc, that was like living on the moon…

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