Big Island Hawaii: Top Photos

Fire and ice on an island still being born from molten earth

Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas) is basking on Punaluu Beach.
An endangered Hawaiian green sea turtle basks on the jet-black sand of Punaluu Beach — one of those moments that makes the Big Island feel like nowhere else on Earth. © Brocken Inaglory, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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