The largest natural lake on Hawaii’s Big Island is 25-acre Waiakea Pond. A lake this small would hardly rate notice in most states, but Hawaii’s mountainous geology and surrounding oceans leave little flat land for natural ponds to form. Waiakea…

[Full Again: Lake Waiau nearly disappeared, in a shrinking process that extended from 2010 – 2015 with no clear explanation. As of September 2015, it is again full.] Tiny Lake Waiau on Hawaii’s Big Island is one of the highest…