"I'll take the coral necklace, please"
Spouting Horn market, Kauai
Baby coffee plants
Heavenly Hawaiian Kona Coffee Farms
Coffee plant blossom
Heavenly Hawaiian Kona Coffee Farms
Dead tree near Hale Pohaku
Excavation
Blue Knob State Park, Pennsylvania, USA
Ground Floor
Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, Hawaii
Hale Pohaku from nearby caldera
Hale Pohaku visitors' center
At 9000 feet elevation, on the way to the Mauna Kea summit.
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Heavenly Hawaiian Kona Coffee Farms, Hawaii
Keck logo window
Window in the rear of the visitors' center, facing the ops rooms. When observing, we would spend the night in the ops rooms, directing the observations and reviewing the data.
Kīlauea Point Lighthouse
Kauai
Laysan Albatross
Kīlauea Point National Wildlife Refuge, Kauai
Magnificent Frigatebird
Kīlauea Point National Wildlife Refuge, Kauai
Martian waterfall
Waimea Canyon, Kauai
Mauna Kea silversword
This endangered plant is protected in an enclosure next to the Mauna Kea Visitor Information Center at Hale Pohaku. It is really strikingly silver in person.
Mokihana Valley
Kauai
NIRC
The Keck near-infrared camera. I used this instrument in grad school, and now it's a museum piece.
Rebuildable
Saddle Road
The new Saddle Road (Daniel K. Inouye Highway) and Mauna Loa from a small caldera near Hale Pohaku on Mauna Kea.
Shrine
Small caldera near Hale Pohaku. Mauna Loa is in the background.