Old airport garden

This morning, for a change, I opted to walk around the old Kona airport state recreation area.  The old runway now provides access to some nice beaches, and to a pretty garden.  A band was rehearsing in the old terminal building.

The garden features some tropical plants as well as desert plants.  And I encountered at least a half dozen mongooses.

First, a mongoose.

Some tropical plants:

Plumeria (aka frangipani)

Bougainvillea

Some desert plants:

Flowering cactus

Desert plants seeming to rise out of lava