Hawai’i Tropical Bioreserve & Garden
Hawai’i Tropical Bioreserve & Garden
Two Rainforest Waterfalls
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Nāhuku
Nāhuku (Thurston Lava Tube)
Nāhuku, known as the Thurston Lava Tube, rests inside Hawai’i’s Big Island. The cave formed when molten lava coursed through the tube’s floor, reaching temperatures exceeding 2,000º F. When the flow stopped, the cave remained.
Nāhuku’s roof was once covered in curious solidified drips of lava. Sadly, the majority disappeared as souvenirs.
Nāhuku (Thurston Lava Tube)
Nāhuku (Thurston Lava Tube)
Cherokee Vistas
Cloudland Canyon
Cloudland Canyon Cliff
West Rim Trail Sandstone
West Rim Trail Ice and Sandstone
Turtle or Whale Rock (Which do you see?)
Turtle or Whale Rock (Which do you see?)
West Rim Trail Creek
Cloudland Canyon Waterfall
Cumberland Plateau
American Trout Lily, Erythronium americanum
Hikers flock to Raven Cliff Falls Trail for the rush of falling water, but a trip in early April offers subtler beauty along the way.
Since ninety-nine percent of trout lily plants are non-flowering, the illusive perennials pictured above are one-percenters thriving in the mountains of White County.
Beaversign
“Usul, we have beaversign the likes of which even God has never seen!”
Fallen Tree, Falling Water
Weekend psychogeography leads to Watson Mill State Park’s Holly Tree Trail, and the ruins of a hydroelectric dam and power house built in 1907.
Arboreal Boneyard
Pedagogy of the Plants 