It is thrilling to come up to Kilauea iki crater. The sheer scale and depth of it seems totally surreal. Kaya was a bit skeptical about the safety of walking into the crater.
Here is the cinder cone from the old eruption.
Our dear friends Pat and Leslie joined us and Mom and Dad for the hike.
Unless you actually walk into the crater it is difficult to appreciate how the lava dwarfs you.
We had a picnic lunch next to the eruption site. In 1950 it spewed lava 350m into the air. The fissures and Pele's hair (strings of fine glass that look like spiderwebs) still evidence the power of nature's creative force.
Patrick leaps with Kaya over a steam vent.
The thurston lava tube.
Halemaumau crater and lots of VOG.
Back in Pahoa I took a sunset stroll.
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