Big Island of Hawaii - August 18, 2002


At Hawaii's Volcanoes Nat'l Park, we hiked over fresh lava flows to where the stuff was still red-hot and oozing. Click images to enlarge.

   
Kilauea Caldera.
Chain of Craters road abruptly ends here.
#1 in a sequence of four shots over ~ 1 minute
#2.
Here it comes.
#3.
Get the fire extinguisher!
#4.
S'mores, anyone?
LavaRainbow.
Pretty, huh?
Same rainbow.
Click to see two streams flowing from Pu'u O'o Vent.
Pahoehoe lava is runny, not chunky.
Pronounced "Pah hoe ay hoe ay", by the way.
The view from our condo in Kailua-Kona.