Volcano: Flora
Today we celebrated the Birthday of the World by visiting an active volcano, where the act of creation is ongoing. We didn't make it down to the active flows (bit of a rough hike, that is) but we saw the glory of Creation. I'll start with flowers.... Berries, actually. Ohelo berries were busting out all over, in various stages of ripeness
| We're not sure what these are, but they were all over the road to Volcano village. The wind was something fierce up there today, so anything with a long stalk or branches was whipping around. But sometimes you get lucky. |
| The area we were tramping about, Steam Vents and Sulpher Banks, was pretty thick with these relatively recent (1945) imports. I took a lot of very fuzzy pictures of these guys, but I did get this one decent shot. |