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- A‘a or Pahoehoe?
Probably the influence of the Hawai‘i sign across the street, but I could swear the song on the radio was “My Kind of Lava”
- Hot and Fresh!
A‘a Fresh Mexican Grill? I think I’d better stick with the *mild* salsa.
- Thurston Lava Tube (Nāhuku)
Let’s see, when we left off, we had nearly completed a circuit around the Kilauea caldera. Before driving down Chain of Craters road to the coast, we stopped at the Thurston Lava Tube. Update (2021): The park is now emphasizing the Hawaiian name for the cave, Nāhuku, but at the time we visited in 2005, […]
- A Visit to Kilauea
Picking up the oft-delayed vacation photos series, here’s the first half of our trip out to Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park and the volcano Kilauea. Kilauea is often referred to as the most active volcano in the world. To give you an idea why, its latest eruption started in 1983… and is still going! We got […]
- Lava Graffiti
Amid the old lava flows on the west coast of Hawai‘i, locals have a tradition of arranging coral on the jumbled rocks to create temporary graffiti. It tends to be “friendly” graffiti, more like carving one’s initials in a tree than tagging a freeway wall with spray paint. We drove past a beautifully drawn whale […]
- Up the coast to Kohala
It’s taking me longer than I thought to post all these Hawaii photos. North of Kona there are miles of old lava flows, the most recent of which were in 1801 (from Hualalai, the volcano above Kailua) and 1859 (from Mauna Loa, the second-higest peak on the island). Because the island is right in the […]