Kailua-Kona

Holualoa Kona Coffee Company - sun drying deck 

drying coffeebeans

helping hands at the coffee plantation

not yet ripe coffee - they are getting orange/red and ready to pick by august

flowering coffee plant

apple bananas ... very common on the islands, and veeery delicious!

H: black crab ... maybe an "aama crab"

:D

saffron finch ... a non native bird (again); this one was brought in from south america

nice sunset before we went snorkeling with manta rays ... :)))

reef manta ray (Manta alfredi) - look for the dark shadow ;)

... taken at night so the pics did not get really well
H: turn your monitor bright...

H: ...then you might see its mouth at the lower left. This one was about 2-3ms "wing" span (reef mantas are smaller than the free water mantas) 

And here some moving pics of a moving (and cold and with high waves, therefore the jitter) moment:
http://youtu.be/B1qrUhnkOVA