Nov 30, 2011 - Volcano

We said goodbye to Clem, Mike and the animals and headed South on our way to Volcano National Park. We made a couple of stops along the way to take a look at the old lava fields, made a stop at a bakery for malasadas (cream filled donuts, minus the hole) and then stopped at a black sand beach. The beach and bay are home to lots of turtles, both in the water and out and we were lucky to get a close look at a few of them. Then it was off to Volcano with a quick stop to drop off our bags at Crater Rim Cabin. We were greeted by Barry who was...

Apr 18, 2011 - HAWAII - Insel BIG ISLAND: Volcano Village

Die namentlich nicht treffender zu charakterisierende Village "Volcano" sollte Ausgangspunkt fuer unser letztes grosses Abenteuer auf Hawaii werden. den Kilauea Volcanoes national Park. Wir wohnten sprichwoertlich im "at the end of the road B & B" bei einem superfreundlichem aelteren Ehepaar, wo wir uns so richtig zu Hause fuehlten, und wie Enkelkinder umsorgt wurden. Ebenfalls hier oben auf knapp ueber 1000m Seehoehe lernten wir im "Supermarkt" 1 nettes schweizer Paerchen kennen, Dank welchem wir ueberhaupt erfuhren, dass im Park zur Zeit...

Feb 10, 2011 - Hawaii Day 4 - The earth shakes

Woke up this morning to a wonderful sunrise (first one of the trip). Once we got the tent packed up, we started to eat breakfast in the car, next thing you know, the car and everything around us was shaking! Thanks to the kindle and the power of the internet, we were able to immediately find out the active volcano had just produced a 3.6r ichter scale earthquake... not a huge quake, but fun nonetheless. We later found out by a park ranger that there were 28 earthquakes yesterday alone, and that the volcanoe has been acting up quite a bit....

Feb 9, 2011 - Hawaii Day 3 - volcanoes national park

Spent the entire day in the park today. Woke up to cloudy weather again and started off with a short hike through devestation trail that endd up being a 10km hike that included walking on the frozen and still steaming crater floor of Pu'u Pua'i's cinder cone (last erupted in 1959 when the vent blew off the side of the mountain and erupted a total of 17 times). Saw many pretty red songbirds all over the place and lots of wild fowl (look similar to chickens). We then went through the Thurston Lava Tube (tube created by flowing lava that end...

Feb 8, 2011 - Hawaii Day 2 - volcanoes national park - Big Island

Woke up in volcanoes national park. Weather here is a bit chilly and overcast. We spent the day wandering the park and exploring the many natural remains of the giant active volcano that was responsible for the creation of these amazing islands. Crater rim drive is currently closed ue to high amounts of sulfer dioxide gas. We hiked quite a few trails and saw an area where the volcanoe's fiery molten lava covered the road in 2003, saw a giant sea arch, also created by the lava, and baren landscpe as well as areas already regenerating with...

Jan 17, 2011 - v kráteru sopky

Den v národním parku vulkánů, který je mimochodem na seznamu památek UNESCO, zahájíme v návštěvním centru, kde promítají naučné dokumenty o sopkách. Pak jsme prošli lávový tunel (jeskyni - Thurston lava tube) a procházkou (stezka značena, průvodce doporučuje) v délce cca 6km sestoupili přes tropický prales do bočního kráteru sopky, jehož dno zaplnila tekutá láva ještě v roce 1960 (!), opravdu speciální zážitek. Při procházce v kráteru, což bylo trochu náročnější, než jsme čekali, jsme dokonce potkali američanku, která byla také na výletě v...

Mar 10, 2010 - Volcano and South Point

Goal for the day was to make it to the volcano and hike the Kilauea Caldera but the weather, again, had other plans for us. We made the drive, spent about 20mins driving through blinding rain only to decide to try returning another day. As soon as we got about 5 miles out it was beautiful again. So we headed for South Point- the southernmost point in the US which is also the windiest! It blew us all over but was gorgeous scenery. Dan got to do some 4WD trails through the dirt along the coastline. Lots of horse farms and the giant power...

Feb 23, 2010 - Another vist to Volcano National Park

We made the long drive back to Volcano national park again. Once we got to the park, we drove a road down from the visitor center to edge of the sea to where a 2003 lava cut across the road on it‘s way to the ocean. Unfortunately lava pressure has dropped so there's no more lava flow to the sea. And since the drop of pressure blocked off the tube, when it starts up again, a new lava tube will be created out to the sea. We also had time to hike a 'desolation trail' where an eruption wiped out a rain forest.

Feb 19, 2010 - Kilauea Caldera

When to see the volcano. It’s about 2 hr drive each way. What’s the road like. It’s slow going with single lane traffic with a top speed of 45 mph. We spent 4 quick hours at the Kilauea Caldera. The park service closed the road around the volcano because of dangerous sulphur gas. But we did have a chance to looked at the volcanic plum coming out of the center of the creator.

Feb 7, 2009 - Day 7

Today we check out of kona and head for Volcano National park. We stay at a little place in the town of volcano. This was one of the highlights of the whole trip. Being atop one of the worlds most active volcanoess, still streaming from its last eruption. As you will see, there is lava still spewing into the ocean. If you ever go to Hawaii and dont see this park your missing out. I dont mean just drive through it, get out and do some of the awesome hikes around the volcano craters, and lava tubes.

Mar 23, 2007 - Hawaii Volcano National Park

After we left the beach we drove to the volcano. The drive was about 2 hours along one amazing highway. The views were spectacular. When we got in the park we started out on the Crater Rim Drive and stopped at Kilauea Caldera. This was amazing! It was a crater which in 1959 filled with lava during an eruption of the volcano. They say the lava is over 400 ft deep and took something like 36 years to harden completly! Lava sprays shot 1900 ft up from the crater. The eruptions lasted 5 weeks during which thousands of people flocked to the scene...

Feb 3, 2007 - Visit at Kilauea Volcano

This is for Mrs. Maxwell and Mrs. Gertzbein's class. We learned so much on this trip to the Volcano National Park. We went to Kilauea Volcano which is on the youngest of the Hawaiian Islands. It is literally a hot spot!! Plumes of magma rise from a hot spot deep within the earth's mantle. After several hundred years it creates a volcano which rises above the sea level and eventually it becomes an island. The volcano continues to grow until the movement of the Pacific Plate (a sheet of the earth's crust) carries the island away. The plate is...