Other points of interest from the trip:

1. Gasoline ranged from $4.17 to $4.48
2. Milk $4.99 a gallon
3. Temperature was pretty constant – Kona side low 70’s at night and low 80’s daytime, the Hilo side a little cooler – mid to upper 60’s night and 70’s day. Always humid.
4. New birds to add to the list: The Brazilian Red Cap Cardinal, Japanese White Eye, Myna (thick as Starlings in Iowa), Golden Plover, Nene (the State bird), Moorhen, Grouse, Kalij Pheasant, Chuckar, Java Sparrow, Red Whiskered Bulbul, Canary, Wild Jungle Fowl (colorful Roosters), Spotted Nap Dove and Peacock.
5. Flowers and trees – so different and colorful but too numerous to name all of them. Wild Orchids were a real treat & Poinsettia’s as tall as some trees. 
6. So many colorful and mostly tasty fruit 
7. Also more Waterfalls and Rainbows than one could imagine
8.  We saw a shooting star on the way back to AZ.