Hawai’i Big Island Trip Day4 and 5

Huge Crater

This day we explored the center of Volcanoes National Park. First at the visitor center, we saw a short movie about 2018 eruption. This 2018 lower Puna eruption completely changed the landscape of Puna area, including the national park. Now no red lava is coming out, because all of it went outside during the Puna eruption. Also the size of Kilauea Iki Crater, which is the most famous crater located near the visitor center, is much bigger now. Crater is much larger than I had imagine and I felt the massive power of underground earth. It is one of the vigorous events to change the landscape of nature and make the nature beautiful. We also saw many steam vents. The eruption is calmed down, but still many activities are going on. It was nice to see earth’s energy.

A few days later the park was closed again for the government shutdown. So it was really lucky I could visit there.

Honokane Nui

This day we camped at Kiholo Bay state park. Camping there was allowed only Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights. Probably because not many campers on weekends and that is the strategy to kick hippies out. The campsite is just on the beach. So it is nice to see sunset at the campsite. Sunset happens everywhere everyday, but sun setting over the ocean is especially pretty and never be boring.

The next day we hiked to Polulu Valley to Honokane Nui. Polulu Valley is very pretty with rapturous blue ocean. Because there many hikers here, we went to the next hill, Honokane Nui. This is very quiet and nice view point to sit down and chill. It is funny that nobody hikes more than 3 miles in Hawai’i. So you can get to the really peaceful area by hiking only a few miles. We had quality time by staring at lush green hills and beautiful ocean.