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| Hawaiian hood ornamanent. | Scale model of the Chain of Craters region, Puna, Big Island. I stayed in Kapoho. | The Kiluea caldera - a whole lotta lava! | Big downhill to the sea on the Chain of Craters Road. | Chain of Craters Road. |
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| Chain of Craters road. | Getting dark - view back behind me on the Chain of Craters road. | The parking lot at the bottom of the Chain of Craters road. They missed a nice coast down with the warm air in your hair, but admittedly have an easier time getting back to the top ... | Good grief what an outfit. Leg warmers aren't meant to go with a Hawaiian skirt - oh that's right - where, we're at the bottom of the Chain of Craters road. | There are 2 kinds of lava. This is pahoehoe - smooth and ropey, and is more fluid than the more jagged 'a'a kind (yes that's what it's called). |
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| Lava covered the road at the end of the Chain of Craters road as recently as 1997. | Another view of that lava-covered road. When are you going to clear this away? many motorists ask the ranger. Not anytime soon - this is what you came to see, is the reply. | The kitchen of Susan's house | 10,000 Feet! Haleakala, Maui. | Sword plant on Haleakala, Maui. |
