Sunday: Up the Mountain
Sunday we did the drive up to the Visitor Information Station on Mauna Kea, 9000 feet above sea level.
| We really were up near the clouds. Some of them looked friendlier than others.... |
| A little way off from the VIS is a silversword sanctuary, which includes this little shrine, to Pele, I think. |
| Max enjoys wearing layers, and one of the only pictures he'd really stand still for was with the Invisible Cow sign. |
| The selection of snacks at the VIS is decidedly slanted towards the celestial.... By the way, a lunch of freeze dried bananas, peaches, strawberries, cinnamon apple slices, mint chocolate chip and neopolitan ice cream still won't feed five people. Trail mix helps, though. |
| Because it was daytime, they only had one telescope out, with solar filters. I was not the only person sticking his camera on the eyepiece, not by a long shot. Note the flare in the upper left quadrant! |
| Later, back at the seashore.... It turns out that you can feed the fish at the Hilo Hawaiian, if you ask the right person -- no, I don't know who it was -- and they give you some actual fish food. |