Volcano pics from Hawaii

Here's some of the pics we took after climbing volcanoes, walking across volcano craters or simply looking at the volcano's. Cheers mate!!

Sandie versus a snake

Sandie is our youngest black lab and very inquisitive so we were surprised to find that when we got home 2 weeks ago last Sunday, after a day out Sandie was not feeling the best. Here's a photo of her having fun.

She was fine originally but then she started breathing heavy and her face started to swell. At first we thought it was a hornet sting but it wouldn't stop swelling and it was very painful for her so we took her to the emergency vet (Sunday nite pricing.) who confirmed it was a snake bite and gave her some medication. It has been nearly two weeks now and she's doing better. Here's her picture after the bite.



I don't think she will be messing with a snake again. The first time she went out into the garden after the bite she was sniffing a flower and the wind blew it. She jumped. I guess we now have to watch out for snakes too.

Hawaii Pics

Sorry its taken so long to get these on here. We took a lot of photo's and I've been struggling with which ones to put on and then I thought what the heck just get them up there. So here goes.

Here's some of the many beaches we were on.







Here's some of the larger waves heading towards Mattie.



Here's another wave trying to take out Markey.




Here's some dancers from the Polynesian Cultural Center we visited.






Instead of spending all the time on the beach we went for a hike to see Waimaia Falls and while we were there we spotted the endangered Moorhen. There are only 500 hundred left in the world and five of them were here. Here's one.




Here's part of the hike (Whoever heard of a paved hike?)



Here's an old Hawai'ian dwelling.



And here's the part of the hike that Markey liked.



The end result was the Waimaia falls. Here's Mattie with his friend Dante.



It was pretty but we were expecting something a lot different so on the 2nd week we went to see some other falls and they were much more impressive.




We had to go through a rain forest to get to them which was also pretty kewl. This was a better hike but we still had the pavement.



That's all for today but I'll post some more soon of the volcano we walked across and some of the world class telescopes we saw at 14,000 feet on top of the worlds largest mountain.

Mezza out!