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  • Hawaii Helicopter Ride

    We had to get up very early.

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    We got in the helicopter as the sun was rising.

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    And it took off.

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    And we flew high over the ground.

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    Above the clouds

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    Which really interfered with the scenicness.

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    Fortunately the clouds started to clear.

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    And then we could see the mini-volcanos.

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    And the big ones.

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    And the bigger ones.

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    And the biggest one of all.

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    Then we went over to the active one.

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    Which had molten lava inside.

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    It was splooping.

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    Further down the mountain it was flowing

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    Slowly flowing

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    And cooling and crusting.

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    There were small islands that the volcano hadn’t set on fire.

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    This was a bigger one.

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    You can see where the road used to be.

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    At the edge there were a lot of dead trees.

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    Then we were back over the green part of the island.

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    The clouds were all gone.

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    Then we went to the coast.

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    And saw some whales.

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    And some waterfalls.

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    Very steep waterfalls.

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    These ones were more inland.

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    They were also steep.

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  • Turtle Beach

    Kerri made a turtle laugh so hard it spit salt water out of its nose.image

    Or maybe he was just allergic to Kerri.imageHe was in the lava browsing for weeds.

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    The water kept hitting him hard.image

    It didn’t look like fun.image

    Here is a closer look at the turtle.imageIt would be easier to identify if it wasn’t underwater.image

    This isn’t much better.image

    But he spent a lot of the time with his head in the water.imageThere is his head.image

    There is his bum.imageHe’s keeping an eye on you.image

    And he’s a turtle.imageStill keeping an eye on you underwater.imageMatt was being contemplative.imageThen he went for a swim.imageBut he didn’t like the water.image

    There was another turtle on the beach.imageKerri took way too many pictures of him too.imageShe even got closeups of his armpits.imageThe turtle finally got tired and went back into the water.

    imageThe water wasn’t very nice to him either.imageBut he made it.

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    Bye Turtleimage