Volcano Day

The active volcano of Kilauea is one of the natural wonders that drew us to the Big Island as we planned our Hawaiian adventure. Cora loves geology, and who wouldn't enjoy seeing a real volcano?

Here is the main crater, which had a lovely rainbow adjacent when we visited.

We had a two-hour drive to reach the national park, with several stops along the way at other points of interest.

New rivers of lava began flowing into the ocean not long before our trip, and the footage and photos were dramatic. But they were way too far away for us to hike to, so we had to content ourselves with driving around hardened lava flows from the last couple of decades.

On our drive around the park, we stopped to walk through the Thurston Lava Tube, left behind when a huge river of lava rushed by hundreds of years ago.











This pretty scene greeted us at the end of the road through the park, where we realized that we couldn't see any red-hot flowing lava without a very long hike.

After the sun had set, we drove back up to the crater, and though it was now pouring with rain, we could see a red glow.

It was a neat day out, though a very long one.