Slow and steady –rain… and you’re going to be as wet and the rain forest itself.. Escorted by friend Pat Bily we were treated to a wonderful hike through The Nature Conservancy’s Waikamoi Preserve today. —The 5,230 acre Waikamoi Preserve provides an important sanctuary for hundreds of native Hawaiian plants and animals. It’s high-elevation rain forest and alpine shrubland are home to 12 different native bird species, seven of them endangered, as well as spectacular plants like the blue ??pelu, a native lobelia.
A walk in Waikamoi in the rain {click to enlarge}
A man and HIS lichen.. Pat Bily proudly holds up some of the recently identified lichen named in honor of him…!
We’re thoroughly soaked at this point… but it’s a tropical rain forest -it’s like this a lot! {click to enlarge}
Lichens Lichens everywhere {click to enlarge}
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Jane’s phone [Nokia Lumia] takes better pictures than my camera!
These -below, are all from her phone!!{Click to enlarge}
What looks like spits of sunshine below is simply new vibrant growth!
