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Hilo & Volcanoes National Park

October 11, 2006

Hawaii Volcanoes National Park

Matt with one of the craters

This is part of Mt. Kilauea, which is still erupting

Erin and Matt with the volcano craters

Matt jumping to make the seismograph move

The whole park was very cool!

Hardened lava is everywhere

See the steam vents? They are very hot

See the hardened lava?

Do not feed Nene! (Isn't that a silly name?)

And definitely do not build rock piles - heavens no

Looks kind of like the end of the world

Steam coming up everywhere

Another big crater

You can see where the lava used to be pooled

Us with the crater

More steam

Offerings to Madame Pele, their volcano god

laaaaava

Going into the lava tube

Matt in the Thurston Lava Tube

Basically lava cools from the outside and forms a tunnel

Matt being silly at the macadamia nut factory

Worker bees making sure I have chocolate candy

I would be so bored doing this all day

Awesome banyon trees in Hilo

Banyon Tree Drive - famous people planted these

Like Amelia Earhardt, Richard Nixon, George V

Japanese Gardens

The Big Island had mongooses everywhere

Downtown Hilo on the big island

Lava flowing into the sea (hard to photograph!)