{"id":108,"date":"2007-05-30T20:48:47","date_gmt":"2007-05-30T08:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deltaprime.net.nz\/hawaii\/?page_id=108"},"modified":"2014-10-22T11:52:48","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T22:52:48","slug":"volcano","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/deltaprime.net.nz\/hawaii\/?page_id=108","title":{"rendered":"Volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"

4th May 2007 to 18th May 2007<\/h1>\n

Volcano was the highlight of our trip, it was the main reason we had travelled over 7000km for our honeymoon, because Volcano is perched on one of the world’s most active and easily approached volcano, Kilauea, and that was what set it apart from all other tropical island destinations. We stayed at the Volcano Country Cottages<\/a> and were well looked after by Garret and Sandy.<\/p>\n

\"20070515R
\n<\/a>Lauri and the Chevy Malibu outside our cottage in Volcano.<\/p>\n

\"20070518L
\nRichard enjoying our traditional breakfast in Volcano,\u00a0of French toast with tropical fruits and honey,\u00a0orange juice and coffee. Our hosts also provided delicious fruit loaves which generally served as\u00a0afternoon tea and desert, sometimes for several days running. Photo by Lauri.<\/p>\n

\"20070506L
\nRichard investigates a steaming vent on the floor of Kilauea Iki Crater. Photo by Lauri.<\/p>\n

\"20070506L
\nOhi’a lehua blooms from cracks in the barren basalt floor of
\nKilauea Iki Crater. Photo by Lauri.<\/p>\n

\"20070506R
\nLauri explores the end of the unlit section of the Thurston Lava Tube.<\/p>\n

\"20070507L\u00a0\"20070507L
\nRichard by two different forms of lava tree moulds form when lava flows around tree trunks and the cools. The one on the left was formed when lava flowed through a forest, leaving lava “trees” behind it. The one on the right was formed when lava cooled around a fairly large tree. Photos by Lauri.<\/p>\n

\"20070507L
\nRichard by a Koa tree on the flanks of Moana Loa. Photo by Lauri.<\/p>\n

\"20070507R\u00a0\"20070507R<\/p>\n

\"20070516R
\nLauri explores the tree moulds and other formations in the 1974 lava flows near the Lua Manu crater.<\/p>\n

\"20070507R
\nLauri peers in to an eruptive fissure in the Kilauea Iki Crater.<\/p>\n

\"20070507LLava from the 2003 eruption blocks the Chain of Craters road.
\nPhoto by Lauri.<\/p>\n

\"20070508RLauri rests by a sign engulfed when the lava covered the road.<\/p>\n

\"20070508L<\/a> \"20070508L<\/a>Richard examines the various forms of basalt deposits while crossing the eastern lava fields. Photos by Lauri.<\/p>\n

\"20070508LThe structures formed by the pahoehoe flows were truly amazing and we stopped to examine and\u00a0photograph almost everything, slowing our progress considerably. Photo by Lauri.<\/p>\n

\"20070508RLauri explores a sink hole formed by a caved in lava tube.<\/p>\n

\"20070508RLauri is irrepressible and bursts forth from a\u00a0fractured mound
\nformed by lava pushing to the surface.<\/p>\n

\"20070508R
\nLauri rests on the smooth and glassy mosaic surface of\u00a0some vitrified (rapidly chilled to form a glass) basalt.<\/p>\n

\"20070508RA Russian biochemist, stripped to his shorts with waves breaking on his thighs,\u00a0photographs the molten lava as it\u00a0pours in to the ocean, to be chilled and shattered into the\u00a0black sand that formed the beach we were standing on.\u00a0The photo below\u00a0was taken using a\u00a0zoom lens as we aren’t that crazy.<\/p>\n

\"20070508R<\/p>\n

\"20070508LLauri photographed the twin rainbows as we walked back to the car,\u00a0across the lava fields as the sun set. The rainbow is sort of the state symbol.<\/p>\n

\"20070510LRichard wearing a lei by a large chuck of basalt in the Kau desert. Photo by Lauri.<\/p>\n

\"20070510R
\nLauri holds some accretionary lapilli (formed when rain falls through\u00a0clouds of volcanic ash) from the Kau desert, in her hands.<\/p>\n

\"20070510R
\nLauri treads in the ancient footprints left when native Hawaiians crossed the wet ash deposits\u00a0from the explosive eruption of Kilauea in 1790.<\/p>\n

\"20070513R
\nLauri examines the petroglyphs carved in to the basalt at Pu’u Loa.<\/p>\n

\"20070514L<\/a> \"20070514L<\/a> \u00a0More petroglyphs at Pu’u Loa, including circles, people and even a sailing waka. Photos by Lauri.<\/p>\n

\"20070515L\u00a0\"20070515L<\/a>\u00a0Richard pokes molten lava with a stick and photographs a fractured, vitrified deposit. Photos by Lauri.<\/p>\n

\"20070517R<\/p>\n

Above: Lauri has just spotted the molten lava flows at the Kalapana side of the lava field. She is actually standing on the location of the Royal Gardens Subdivision, now buried by up to 50′ of rock.<\/p>\n

\"20070515R<\/a>\u00a0\"20070515R<\/a>: Lauri admires the pahoehoe formations and
\npokes some molten lava with a stick.<\/p>\n

\"20070515L
\nThe interior of the Star of the Sea Church which was moved to its present location to prevent its destruction when lava flows over ran the Kalapana Subdivision. Photo by Lauri.<\/p>\n

\"20070517R\u00a0\"20070517R<\/a>An interesting lava formation forms as Lauri waits for the sun to set and our dinner (white object in the centre of the right photo) to thaw out in the heat from the lava.<\/p>\n

\"20070517L
\nMolten lava by night. This made the 2km walk back to the car across the\u00a0broken surface of the lava field, in the pitch black and pouring rain all worth while. Photo by Lauri.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

4th May 2007 to 18th May 2007 Volcano was the highlight of our trip, it was the main reason we had travelled over 7000km for our honeymoon, because Volcano is perched on one of the world’s most active and easily approached volcano, Kilauea, and that was what set it apart from all other tropical island … Continue reading Volcano<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":4,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-108","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deltaprime.net.nz\/hawaii\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deltaprime.net.nz\/hawaii\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deltaprime.net.nz\/hawaii\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deltaprime.net.nz\/hawaii\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deltaprime.net.nz\/hawaii\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/deltaprime.net.nz\/hawaii\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136,"href":"https:\/\/deltaprime.net.nz\/hawaii\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/108\/revisions\/136"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deltaprime.net.nz\/hawaii\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deltaprime.net.nz\/hawaii\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}