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htop wrote: Dave, while on the Road to Hana in Maui, I saw one of these lovely Hibiscus kokio in bloom in a rain forest area that we had stopped in to explore. I took a photo of it; however, I must have had used the wrong settings on my camera because the photo did not come out. It was too dark. I was so disappointed when I later learned that this plant is an endangered species. By the way, traveling on the Road to Hana was an exciting adventure for me especially because I tend to be afraid of heights. I was fearful while traveling on this road that has many areas that are one way where cars meet you head on and one car needs to backup hugging the mountainside so the other car can pass. I tried to pretend there was no drop off straight down the mountainside when we had to do this.
I have an inner ear problem that causes me to have vertigo occasionally. I also have motion sickness when traveling on roads that are twisting and turning especially if I am sitting in the backseat of a car. My husband took the front passenger seat while we traveled this road, I sat in the backseat by a window and I became a bit ill. In an area that we could pull over and stop, I saw some beautiful and huge parrot beak plants that were blooming. We stopped and I took a photo. Below is how it came out. I have no idea how this occurred because I was holding the camera very steadily. It was so weird ... almost as though the camera recorded how I feel when I have vertigo with the world spinning and things flip upside down. I guess strange things happen in the rain forest!! :o) I started to enter this photo in the photo contest; however, I decided that only people who are plagued by vertigo would understand why it is so unusual.
