Hawaii | Nov 2010
2nd anniversary trip to the islands of Oahu and Hawaii. 8 days of tropical sightseeing in late November. We visited Oahu for 3 nights, the Big Island for 4.
Read my blog post entitled 8 Crazy Days in Hawaii for more!
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Halema'uma'u Crater Hawaii Volcanoes National Park I like the layers in this scene. In the foreground is the crater spewing sulfur dioxide from molten lava hundreds of feet below the ground, then the Kilauea caldera, then forest, then clouds.
![<span id="date">_11/25/10_</span> <span id="title">Cairn</span>
<em>Hawaii Day 6</em>
Happy Thanksgiving! Although not traditional and not with family, we had a delicious meal at a nearby place called Kaleo's. I highly recommend it if you're ever in the Pahoa area.
Earlier in the day we travelled back to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park and hiked the Kilauea Iki trail that takes you down into a frozen lava lake that was molten just 50 years ago during the 1959 eruption. It was pretty amazing to see and walk across.
For those who don't know, a cairn is a pile of stones that some nice person stacked up to mark a trail. Since many of the trails here are across flat lava, they come in handy.
We also explored the Thurston lava tube and checked out the steam vents before driving all the way to the Mauna Kea visitor's center to watch the sunset, which was awesome.
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