These two endangered creatures were sunning themselves on the black sand beach on the big island of Hawaii.
Sunday, 10 June 2012
Thursday, 7 June 2012
Captain Cook performed the first Christian ceremony on the Hawaiian islands, a funeral service for a crew member.
Later he was killed across the bay in an altercation with the native Hawaiians. The monument placed a hundred years later marks the location. It's only reachable by a strenuous hike or by boat.
In our travels we have followed Captain Cook across the Pacific to Easter Island and to Hawaii.
Wednesday, 6 June 2012
All of the pictures I took of the transit of Venus viewing it the Solarscope. I got pictures from first contact through total ingress and more than halfway across the sun. We started at the Keck Obsevatory Headquaters in Waimea, and ended at our hotel in Keauhou.
Final egress, Venus leaving the surface of the sun was obscured by clouds.
At least it made a beautiful sunset.
We even made the newspaper on the Big Island, the West Hawaii Today
.
http://www.westhawaiitoday.com/sections/news/local-news/sliding-across-sun.html
Tuesday, 5 June 2012
Monday, 4 June 2012
Not a great picture of the partial lunar eclipse last night. I don't have a camera clever enough to let me take good photos of the moon, but you can see the shadow of the Earth "bite" out of the moon's lower part. I guess the picture let's me know I was there. This was at 1am Hawaii time. Delaware folks probably missed it because the sun had set already.
The last two pictures were taken with the iPhone through binoculars.
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