Barny's World Dash

Today I went on a photographic orgy, no doubt like most events of the same name, enjoyed most by those with bigger equipment... that is the bloke with a proper 1000GBP SLR used up an entire 1GB memory card in the day trip, me have slightly inferior apparatus took only about 150 pictures, and the happy snappers were nowhere close.

We visited the a rock cave where the water had a red tinge, in Hawaiian legend it is because a princess fled her evil husband and hid there, but he found her and killed her staining the pool... then we went to the black beach, where the sand is made up from ground down lava (basalt?)
Which came from when the volcano last errupted, but apparently such beaches only last about 500 years before they are eroded away.

Then we went into a 'lava tunnel' which you could walk through, as you can see in the photo, the cave wasn't very interesting but the view was good...

Then we went for a hike through a bamboo forrest which was so dense that it was almost dark and the photos are not as good as one would hope... however some picasa work in england might make them better when I get home.

At the end of the bamboo forrest was a 140m waterfall you could bathe in, quite amazing! You can see me standing at the bottom, it was hard to capture the sheer size of the thing, and I can't put all the photos up here or they'd probably chuck me off for using too much space.

Then on the way back home we went to another beach this time a vivid red! All most incredible. I am off to go snorkelling on a coral reef this afternoon.

(The reason my spelling is apparently so bad, is because I tend to right these in a hurry either because it costs money to use the internet, or because I have just arrived somewhere, I need to write a blog so that particular people don't get worried but I am exhausted so my concentration is not very good)