Here’s a small selection of photos I’ve taken so far …

Mauna Kea rainbow, seen while biking from Kailua-Kona to Spencer Beach Park

The bike fully loaded at the Kona Tiki hotel, where I spent my first night in Kailua-Kona

Here’s my tent (well, okay, your tent, pap) and the bike at Spencer Beach campground

My view riding up and up to Waimea, the cowboy town, which sits on 2,500 feet (800 metres) above sea level on crest between the wet side and the dry side of the island. Do you see the clouds? The change from dry to wet was very sudden. Within 20 minutes of riding, I went from a desert to a tropical rainforest.

Rainforest!

Papaya! My snack at Kalopa State Park.

This is Waipi’o Valley.

Here’s my site at Kalopa State Park. It rains so much here that the campground has roofs for the tent sites. I was lucky. On my second day, the sun shone and I had a great walk through a Hawaiian forest. Here’s a funky tree and some hibiscus.