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09/16/2025

When Energies align to ask “Why not?!”…
Exactly same day as the last email, this came in from “Flying Edna”.

09/16/2025

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09/12/2025

Meteors galore…
Not sure why there was so many meteors on our last visit to Healeakala this trip.

09/09/2025

Buddha’s Halo or Brocken specter, Kalahaku Overlook
When conditions are right, your shadow may be surrounded by a halo as the sun shines onto the sea of clouds. As we drove up to the Healeakala on the last day in the afternoon, the road was encased by fog, only to be broken by a bright cloudless sunny sky as we approached the summit. From the upper visitor’s center at 9740ft, you can see the clouds streaming to cover the craters. I recognized the condition from looking at many photos of Buddha’s Halo and raced to Kalahaku Overlook hoping to see it! 🤞

09/07/2025

Observing the stars…
Professional observatories and a telescope brought up by a visitor on the Healeakala summit.

09/05/2025

What’s for dinner?
Pacific Golden Plover at Kealia Pond.
More photos at “All things bright and beautiful“

09/03/2025

“Early birds…”
Nope… despite hitting the Hosmer Grove Trail at 7am (only because the ranger was kind enough to let us in without a “sunrise reservation” which we technically needed to enter Healeakala National Park from 3-7am, even though the sun already rose), we did not see any native Hawaiian honey creepers. A Japanese White Eye posed for photos on a mamane bush. Notice there are no yellow blossoms on the bush, only seeds? Could be the reason why the Hawaiian nectar feeders are feeding somewhere else inside the park.🤔
More photos on “All things bright and beautiful“.

09/02/2025

Hawaiian coots with funny feet… not webbed like most water fowl.
Some Hawaiian coots on land instead of on water at Kealia Pond on Maui.

09/01/2025

“Nice real estate, no?”
They are chukars (not nene, as many tourists think) and not native to Hawaii. More Chukars on “All things bright and beautiful”.

08/31/2025

What a difference 24hrs makes…
Returning to Healeakala Summit at 10,000ft elevation to clearer skies but no less windy or freezing cold! Headlamps from cars leaving the summit intermittently lights up Magnetic Hill (mesa like structure in the foreground) while “light pollution“ on the Big Island clearly shows Mauna Kea on the distant left and Mauna Loa on the distant right.

08/30/2025

Looks like “race walking” Hawaiian stilt style…

08/29/2025

Clouds at the summit?
Usually clouds sit below Healeakala’s 10,000ft summit…except when they don’t… The 2 small bumps in the distance is Mauna Kea (left) and Mauna Loa (right) on the Big Island across a 30mile wide channel.