The forth day I rented a car and headed over to
Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park. There was so much to do there. I thought this might be a morning ordeal, I was blown away. Here is a
map 1 (
map 2) of the park to give you and idea about how big this park is and how large the craters are. I spend the day driving from one end of the park to next taking in all there was to see.
The first place I stopped was at the steam vents ( a description you will see a few picture down.)
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| steam vents |
This is
Halema'uma'u Crater. It is always giving off lots of steam. There is even a
webcam. Can't see it good from this picture but this crater has another crater inside of it. It used to be a big lava lake until 1942 it erupted and emptied out. It is crazy big.
The picture below is a
lava tube. Pretty strange that at one time there was hot lava traveling through here.
This is a smaller crater
Kīlauea Iki (below). You can't see it but there are people down there walking along a trail.
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| This used to be a tree that is now covered in lava. |
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| Found this on a hike. |
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| The darker areas are the most recent lava flows |
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| Went into the road |
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| My rental car |
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| Holei Sea Arch |
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| Self Portrait |
Took a little hike to some petroglyphs.
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Halema'uma'u Crater at night, you can see it glowing.
In the end, this day was just so cool. I would have loved to go a few more hike had time allowed. |
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