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Published: October 8th 2017
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Day 7
Serenaded by the sounds of nature.. rain on the roof, coqui frogs, crickets and bird noises were heard all throughout the night. There was one bird that had a call that just didn't stop and felt like it was right outside our window. At first it was cute by 3am I had reached for the earplugs and was like 'fuck this nature shit' (Sorry mum..i can't control what my thoughts think ?) When I got up though the view of our little rainforest from our window greeted us and I was all back into my happy hippie self. We embraced our inner hippy completely that morning, bathing in rainwater and running naked through our private forest ... its what you do isn't it? ? (sorry kids/fam)
A breakfast of Spam, yes Spam in a can.. its one of the most popular foods in Hawai'i and there are so many varieties, we had the hot and spicy for brekky. We lazed around for the morning, Kym sitting on the lanai playing his uke and me just staring out into the wilderness contemplating things, our existence, the universe, our lives, nature... anyways that's enough of the deep and meaningful...
a lunch of bologna sangas and we headed out on our volcano adventure.
Stopping at the Visitors centre to grab maps and advice we started at a 6.6km crater walk. Descending through the cool and clamy rainforest surrounding the crater, once we hit the black lava rocks the temperature change was dramatic. The hot beating sun and extreme wind guided us through the core of the crater, climbing rocks and wondering how we looked to those above, ants with clothes on meandering... and then we were at the other side and a rainforest once again, cooler climate.
Ascending from this rainforest, Kym who was miles ahead of me joked about doing another hike and I was like yep its across the road. This was a lava tube, a short 1 km walk through the tube back into a rainforest.
Our next volcano adventure was a 30 minute drive to the ocean. Along the way we stopped at a few places to look at other craters and check out the views. It was ridiculously windy and I would love to have known how windy, I felt like Marcel Marseau battling t he wind sometimes. The end of the
road finished at some cliffs, a sea arch formed by a volcano eruption years ago and watching the waves crash against the cliff. Further down the road, not accessible to vehicles was an 18 mile trek to view the molten lava meeting the ocean. We didn't do that one. I wished I had done more research and found the other way in were it was only 4 mile trek, that would have been more doable and worth seeing. On a side note if we were to do this you do have to be careful as the ground can open up in places and you are NOT allowed to roast marshmallows over the lava...
The sun had begun to set as we drove back and by the time we got to Jagger Museum dusk had all but finished. Once The sun had dropped so did The temperature by about 20 degrees but the view that greeted us was a bright orange glow from the active volcano. With the full moon on the left and the lava lake on the right it made for a spectacular sight. Kym got some amazing footage of the volcano spewing lava.
What a day!
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