They Don't Grow Like This in Wisconsin

We arrived in Hilo, Hawaii on Monday morning and we had a long day planned aboard a tour bus. Our first adventure on the tour bus was a stop at Rainbow Falls where there was also a forest of Banyan trees. I didn't know what a Banyan tree was until I saw this. Basically, the branches grow long then sag to the ground. They then re-root themselves and the process begins again. This picture shows the base of ONE Banyan tree. The shade created by these monsters is un-real. One tree creates the shade of a small forest. These trees are common in all the islands. In Maui there is a Banyan that occupies an entire acre.