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Wow, what an amazing sight! That lava field makes you realize the sheer force of nature, doesn't it?
It does. We felt that when we drove through the National Park. We were saying it must be quite a thing to manage that, never knowing what nature's going to throw at you next and where the lava flows are going to go, but I'm getting ahead of myself.
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What an amazing experience! I completely get that some things are simply hard to capture with pictures, so I can only imagine how awesome it would be to see it in person.
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Very neat perspectives from the helicopter! Your zoom lens came in very handy for capturing that molten lava. I've made a note to myself that I should probably wear a hat when I finally get to do this as thin, fine hair knots up horribly.
If you go open doors, they won't let you wear a hat, as they don't want anything to fly out of the helicopter and hit the blades. They even said to my snood (and I know this is an English word - basically you pull it on over your head and it sits around your neck, if that helps ) as they were worried I might lost it. Mind you, I don't think they really appreciated what it was, in truth...
Very interesting to see the lava fields. I know this is one experience where the photos, wonderful as they are, can't begin to capture what it really looked like. If I didn't know what the photos of the lava plains were of, or that they were taken from a copter, I'd have guessed they were photos of dried mud puddles! You just can't grasp the scope of it all.
you really can't - it's just too much to take in.
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As others have said, I'm glad you did this because I never will!
Happy to oblige and share the experience with everyone.
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Maybe the reason you can do this but not the WDW thrills is that you don't like the sensation of speed? Or maybe it's just that you don't have the photography to distract you!
Very cool shots of the lava field. It sure is massive. The tour we took brought us to a macadamia nut factory, and orchid factory and to the lava field. It actually was a pretty bad tour, due to the tour guide. However, I am a geology nerd, so I really enjoyed the lava field part of it.
What a shame about the tour.
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I love how the helicopter ride gave a different perspective. My brother hiked way out on it, and even went past the part he should have. I freaked out on him a bit, but he's not one to follow rules. I thought surely he'd end up falling through or going in the ocean.
What an amazing experience! I completely get that some things are simply hard to capture with pictures, so I can only imagine how awesome it would be to see it in person.
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How absolutely amazing! Love that you got to see the molten lava. Is it always flowing in some amount, or are there days where there is none to be seen - wondering if they said anything about that?
If you can't wear a hat, I wonder if you could put the hood up on a sweatshirt? I can only imagine the windblown look you finish with!
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How absolutely amazing! Love that you got to see the molten lava. Is it always flowing in some amount, or are there days where there is none to be seen - wondering if they said anything about that?
They did talk about that and there's also quite a bit on the National Parks website as well. There is no guarantee that you'll see molten lava on any one day, as it literally changes from one day to the next, which is why we were all encouraged to keep an eye out and shout if we saw any.
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If you can't wear a hat, I wonder if you could put the hood up on a sweatshirt? I can only imagine the windblown look you finish with!
I think you probably could, but whether it would stay up in the wind is another matter...
Wednesday 6 November – part four: seeing Kileuau’s main crater
We headed over to Avis to pick up our rental car….
…. and were quickly away in it. We’d been told that we couldn’t miss the national park. All you did was turn left when you came out of the airport, and then follow the road and that was pretty much it.
Civilisation…. … and less civilised!
It took about 45 minutes in total to get there, and to be honest, it wasn’t the greatest scenery on the way.
I was expecting more and I was beginning to wonder what it would be like in the national park. I needn’t have worried. The second we paid our $10 (bargain by the way! ) and entered, we were just blown away by the scenery in here.
Our first stop was the visitor centre, although it’s not one of the better National Parks one I’ve seen, which was a shame. There was nothing at all in here about volcanoes, but we were later to discover that’s because all that information is at the Jaggar Museum Visitor Centre. I got my National Parks passport stamped and then we were good to go.
We headed out again seeing some beautiful scenery on the way…
The first thing we came to were the steam vents, which were very eerie and reminded me a bit of Yellowstone.
We carried on a bit further and came to the crater overlook. Wow, this thing is huge!
We hadn’t seen anything yet though. At the next stop, which was the Jaggar Museum, we first found a nene, a native Hawaiian goose that can’t be found anywhere else in the world. I wasn’t expecting to see one, so this was an added bonus. He seemed happy enough to pose for photos…
We headed to the overlook here and from here, we could see the main cauldron of Kileuauin full action. It was fascinating to see it billowing out smoke in front of us, but oddly I didn’t feel the least bit threatened by it. In fact, I found it quite calming just standing there watching it.
Amazing photos...and very interesting information. It might be bc you are by the national park...but it seems less populated this island...or was that just my impression?
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Your zoom lens came in very handy for capturing that molten lava. 
I've made a note to myself that I should probably wear a hat when I finally get to do this as thin, fine hair knots up horribly. 
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) as they were worried I might lost it. Mind you, I don't think they really appreciated what it was, in truth... 
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