I'm not sure if that's spelled right. Those damn Hawaiian words! Anyway, the english translation is "City of Refuge"

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Foggy morning in Kalopa State park, Hawaii, Big Island

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Hawaiian tree ferns in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.

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These are fiddleheads. This is the way fern leaves grow. They unroll. Most fiddleheads are an inch or so wide. This is a Hawaiian tree fern and these are about 8 inches wide.

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Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. This is part of the the Kilauea Caldrera. One of the largest and most active volcanoes on earth. Though it's still smoking, it's cool enough that you can climb down and walk across the bottom. There have been times in the last couple of hundred years that the whole bottom of the crater was red liquid lava.

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