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DAY 2:Walks, Cancellations and Good Food Showery morning but all the dark clouds and rain were on the Hilo(east) coast and further south around Kona. Online reports and radio confirmed that Volcanoes NP was closed with roads damaged; power lines were down and many roads were impassable due to...
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THE BIG ISLAND/HAWAII (4 nights/3 days) With 4 nights here, there were 3 trips we really wanted to do on the island, two of which I’d booked in advance: The Mauna Kea Summit Sunset and Stargazing trip ($320 each) Snorkelling Trip to Captain Cook Bay ($110 each) Viewing the Manta Rays...
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Na Pali Boat Trip We were booked onto the 2pm sailing with Makana Charters from Port Allen, about a 90 min drive south. Had thought of visiting Waimea Canyon pre trip but there had been a fire in the area and road access had been affected with it being unclear when this would be...
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This was the island that had drawn me the most to Hawaii in terms of landscape – the Na Pali cliffs looked amazing as did the north of the island.In fact, the boat trip to see the cliffs was my No 1 ‘must see’ of the whole trip – IF weather allowed.A long, long way to come if that didn’t play ball...
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Breakfast of fruit and toast on the balcony, high 70s temperature as the sun came up.I should say now that we both arrived in Hawaii ‘walking wounded.’ I usually have two colds per year and generally throw the worst of them off after 2 or 3 days; Chris is rarely bothered with colds and has the...
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I’m recently back from my mammoth trip through Asia (though in fact I’m up in Edinburgh as I write this, visiting as a fellow of the Higgs Centre For Theoretical Physics). I’ve already written a little about the middle week of my voyage, observing at the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, and I hope...
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After a couple of days of lousy weather, the sky cleared up and dried out Wednesday. Eventually, we got down to τ<0.08 — not quite the best possible conditions, but good enough for almost anything we might want to do. We started out slightly worse than that, but that meant we got to observe...
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I am sitting in the control room of the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT), 14,000 feet up Mauna Kea, on Hawaii’s Big Island. I’m here to do observations for the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy Survey (CLS). I’m not really an observer — this is really my first time at a full-sized, modern telescope....