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29 May 2009, 1:31 pm
If you’re not interested in volcanoes, have a look at this recipe for chicken with banana leaves instead.
Yesterday, the webcam at the Jaggar Museum (on display at the Visitor’s Center ) was a whiteout – you could only see cloud. When I stopped there this morning, there was actually something to see, so I headed to the Jaggar Museum as my first stop of the day.
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28 May 2009, 3:52 am
If it’s Tuesday the 26th again, this must be Hawaii.
After all the usual hassle of arriving in a new country, taking another flight, picking up a hire car, etc., I actually started sightseeing.
The first stop was the visitor’s centre at Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park. (Quick aside: if you plan your trips right, the yearly pass that you bought in 2008 and used in a few National Parks can be reused nine months later for four more National Park visits.) Everything was clouded in, so there wasn’t much prospect of seeing any great views, let along taking photos with any kind of contrast.
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