Windsor RuinsBruinsburg, MississippiOne of Mississippi’s most fantastic secrets, hidden away in the swamps out in the middle of nowhere, are the ghostly remains of the Windsor plantation. The Windsor plantation was built from 1859-1861. The plantation was built, owned, and first inhabited by Smith Daniell who only was able to live in the mansion [...]
Big Island
Pu-ukohola heiau National Historic Site / Kohala
Kona, Big Island, Hawaii
Pu’ukohola Heiau National Historic Site is located right off to the side of the infamous Outrigger Hotel. It is a National Register historic site that preserves the ruins of one of Hawaii’s most major native temples. The temple existed from the time that Kamehameha I [...]
Kealakekua Bay Historical Park across from Captain Cook, Kona
Kealakekua Bay Historical Park and Beach
Kona, Big Island, HawaiiA great little cove across from the ever-so-famous Captain Cook Cove and diving hotspot on the Kona coast, Big Island, Hawaii. It is located roughly 12 miles south of Kailua-Kona. The area was settled over a thousand years [...]
Roadside marker and grave between Punalu’u and Kona
Roadside Markers and Graves in Hawaii
All along Route 11 on the Big Island of Hawaii are memorial markers, monuments, and graves for those who have lost their lives. In addition to the monuments are quite a few roadside cemeteries. Above is one of the most interesting ones I [...]
Ka’u Desert
Ka’u Desert
Big Island, Hawaii
The Kaʻū Desert is an amazing desert of lava rock and sand in the southwest rift zone of the Kilauea volcano. It is not a true desert because it does get rainfall, albeit it acid rain, and it exceeds 1,000 mm per year. (39 inches) The desert consists primarily of decaying [...]
Big Island
Volcano National Park
Volcano, Big Island, Hawaii
One of Hawaii’s most notorious and famous National Parks, “Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park” was established in 1916 as a National Park, a International Biosphere Reserve in 1980, and a World Heritage Site in 1987 to demonstrate the history and living geological experiene of volcanism, geology, and techtonics. It covers [...]
Kilauea Caldera
Kilauea
Volcano, Big Island, Hawaii
Kīlauea is one of the most spectacular volcanoes existing on Big Island in Hawaii. Rising 4,091 feet above sea level, the summit caldera is a broad shelf of uplands well beneath the long profile of Mauna Loa. It is a very low flat shield volcano lying against the southeast flank of [...]
Kilauea Lava Flow
Kilauea Lava Flow* End of Highway 130 on the east side not far from Kalapana, Big Island, Hawaii *Flowing out of the active volcano Kīlauea on the Big Island, comes one of the world’s most frequent outpouring of lava. Lava has been issuing continuously at Puʻu ʻŌʻō since January 1983. In 1998 Kīlauea [...]
Kalapana Lava Flows, Big Island, Hawaii
Kalapana Lava Beds
Off Highway 137, Near Hilo, Big Island, HawaiiThe Kalapana Lava Beds are part of the ever-growing newly settled part of the Big Island of Hawaii. These fields are the remains of lava flows that devestated the Puna district area in 1990. Lava is a molten rock that is [...]
Onomea Bay, Big Island, HawaiiEnroute from Hilo towards the infamous Akaka Falls, we stopped to admire this amazing coastline and rocky shores known as Onomea Bay on the Big Island of Hawaii. Also known as the Hamakua Coast comprising parts of North Hilo and Hamakua on the flanks of the two dormant volcanoes - [...]