hawaii
23-30 aug 2004
photos by jwz
Lava! Red hot lava! Very far away. It is night, and so we
opt not to hike five miles uphill over a lava flow in the dark. It
looks like embers, really. Apparently if we had been here
a month earlier,
we would have seen it flowing into the sea.
We check into the
Volcano House hotel,
which is right on the edge of the Kilauea crater inside
Volcanoes National Park.
We then go marching around in the surrounding rain forest.
There is a lava tube. We don't have flashlights.
The Kilauea caldera! It is very big indeed. I think that yellow/green stuff is sulphur.
