The kids are still in great spirits and really enjoying being together. Toby said, "This is the most incredible national park I've ever been to! Well, it's the only one I've ever been to. But it's still the best!" With all the mist, they had a chance to run around inside a cloud. We refilled our water bottles with rain catchment. Our next stop is Jagger Museum and a closer look at Halema'uma'u, where the lava is just under the level of the rim. We will also have a chance to explore a 1965 lava flow up close to look for Pele's tears and Pele's hair. No rest for us! We are having far too much fun for that.
We all were amazing hikers and conquered the four mile crater hike with ease! We lifted large chunks of lava over our heads, impressing each other and ourselves very much! We inspected the chemical traces that make rainbow swirls on the black lava chunks. We took lots of pictures of each other with smoking craters in the background. A good lunch at the visitors center has restored us back to 100% and we are now watching a movie about the park that tells us about lava tubes, lava trees, cauldrons of molten lava and the progress of the latest eruptions of Kilauea.
The kids are still in great spirits and really enjoying being together. Toby said, "This is the most incredible national park I've ever been to! Well, it's the only one I've ever been to. But it's still the best!" With all the mist, they had a chance to run around inside a cloud. We refilled our water bottles with rain catchment. Our next stop is Jagger Museum and a closer look at Halema'uma'u, where the lava is just under the level of the rim. We will also have a chance to explore a 1965 lava flow up close to look for Pele's tears and Pele's hair. No rest for us! We are having far too much fun for that.
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