Thankfully, there are so many helicopter tours that the Hawaiian's have perfected the signage directing a fella on where he's headed and where to park.
There are a LOT of pictures here and this is just part one of likely 3 or more by the time I get thru them all, so I won't bore you with a lot of words...
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| Our 'limousine' for the next two hours! We haven't found out where we're to be seated yet so I have high hopes that I get the front! |
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| A picture from the co-pilots chair up front!!! Did I take this picture? Nope, the co-pilot, my lovely bride did! No worries, my seat was purdy good too. |
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| Robby, looking a little tired and not excited. |
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| Caleb, who is giving me that, "I told you I didn't want to do this and you STILL got me a ticket and expect me to smile for your dumb picture?!?!" smile. :-) |
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| There's my gorgeous self in a picture taken by Lesley. I'm sitting directly across from Robby. Caleb is next to me behind that pole in the middle of the picture and then directly behind Lesley is a newlywed couple. There were 7 of us in total. |
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| A marina at Noio point where a whole pile of diving companies are located along with Manta Ray Dives of Hawaii and so on. |
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| One of a few golf courses on Hawai'i. Which one? Beats me... |
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| The pilot tipped the helicopter so I was nearly looking straight down to my right side, which was a little scarier based on the fact that you could see the sky due to the door either not being shut correctly or it was bent somewhat. No matter, I figured if it did open I was buckled in. If my buckle failed, it would be scary for about 20 seconds and then hurt really bad for about 1 more second. And, I got a cool picture out of it! |
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| Really liked the areas where there were recent lava flows. |
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| Another with the lava flow in the distance to the upper left. I beleve this is looking out over Milolii. |
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| If memory serves me correctly, this area was an old logging area, which would certainly explain the sharp contrast in vegetations! |
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| I believe this cool little formation is in the Hawea area and very difficult to get to on land as Hwy 11 is about 5 - 6 miles in from shore at this point. The pilot did say there are some 4 wheeler paths to get down there, but evey those are a bit dicey. |
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| Papakolea Green Sands Beach. According to the world wide interwebs: One of only four green sand beaches in the world, the others being Talofofo Beach, Guam; Punta Cormorant on Floreana Island in the Galapagos Islands; and Hornindalsvatnet, Norway. It gets its distinctive coloring from olivine sand eroded out of the enclosing collapsed cinder cone. |
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| I can't figure out where or what this lava flow is. This was taken from the co-pilots chair on our old camera so it sorts them differently on the computer. As such, it's likely out of place in the sequence, but I like the photo so I'm making you look at it! |
From this point on, I'm pretty much lost on where we currently are. I'll shut up for real this time and only comment when I know what I'm talking about.
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| This is Lava View Point near Kupapau Point. Pretty cool stuff but it really depends on the day whether you see molten lava or not. |
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| Another vantage point of the same. |
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| Not 100% sure on this one, but I think it's the Kilauea crater. With another shot following it where you can actually see a bit of red lava. |
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| You can see little bits of red lava around the top curve of the crater. That's as good as we got on our tour. |
I think that'll do it for the first post of the helicopter tour. I'm trying to divide this post up into three segments because there's SOOOOOO many pictures!
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