{"id":9845,"date":"2015-06-10T04:40:38","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T09:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=9845"},"modified":"2015-06-09T22:16:25","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T03:16:25","slug":"hawaii-volcanoes-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=9845","title":{"rendered":"Hawaii Volcanoes National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

On our recent vacation to Hawaii, Heather arranged for a private tour of the Big Island. Our guide Paul met us at the ship dock and off we went to see among other things Volcanoes National Park.<\/p>\n

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Paul was not only a good guy, he also knew how to take a photograph without getting all goofy with the camera. Amazing the number of people who can’t hold the camera still and point it in the right direction.<\/p>\n

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Much of the park looks like the moon. There are lava flows everywhere. Some not that old. Amazing to me because this is what the birth of land looks like. Hawaii is certainly a land of contrasts from jungles to ultra arid areas like this, often not that far apart from each other.<\/p>\n

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A little oddity when the lava overtakes trees, the tree cools the lava but eventually the tree burns away and leaves a hole in the lava.<\/p>\n

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We went over to the Jagger Museum which overlooks Kilauea, a volcano that has been fairly active in recent months. It was steaming really good. You couldn’t see that much so we crowded into the museum to watch the webcame and some videos. Very spectacular stuff. You sure get a sense of a lot of power contained, barely within the earth. It was all very exciting to be around.<\/p>\n