| Hilo Port Call | |
 Our first port stop - and a rain squall |
 Hilo Harbor |
 The Pilot comes up . . . |
 . . . and comes on board |
 The US Coast Guard escorts us in, making sure no other small ship come anywhere near us. |
 The tug boat comes along side - just in case our side thrusters fail |
 Looking at our landing place |
 The Ship's Officer making sure our landing and tie-up goes smoothly |
 Greetings from Hilo |
 Almost there - the passengers are making sure the Captain does a good job ! |
Pele-'ai-honua (Pele), here throwing molten lava fountains into the air, governs the great flows of lava, and sometimes reveals herself for a few minutes, in the fires of Kilauea |
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 A steam volcano vent |
 The Kilauea Caldera |
 A lava tube that you can walk through |
 The 1969-74 lava flow, at what used to be the Black Sand Beach. |
 The plants are returning to the lava |
 The lava flowed right into the Pacific. |
A new black sand beach in the making |
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