{"id":5326,"date":"2023-01-11T02:17:48","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T07:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.herons-flight.com\/?p=5326"},"modified":"2023-01-11T02:17:48","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T07:17:48","slug":"day-67-volcano-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herons-flight.com\/?p=5326","title":{"rendered":"Day 67, Volcano House."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Saturday, January 7, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We drove past massive lava fields, most of the sharp A\u2019a type. You can remember this because if you walked on this type of lava you would be screaming Ah, Ah. The other less common type of lava is Pahoehoe lava which is smooth and glassy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jim loves a good bakery, so we stopped at the Southernmost bakery in the US, the Punalu\u2019u Bake Shop for Malasadas, a type of Portuguese donut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We arrived at Volcano National Park around lunch time. Our room at Volcano House was not ready, so we had lunch in the hotel\u2019s restaurant overlooking the crater\u2019s rim. We also went for a short hike to an overlook to see the erupting crater a little better. Later we drove to the lava tube.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dinner was great at the Volcano House restaurant as the sun was setting. We had a room with a view of the crater, but we spent very little time in our room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One of many lava flows we saw on the Big Island. Older flows have plants starting to grow on them. This is A\u2019a lava.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Roadside information about the lava flows <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Jim\u2019s happy place<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I had one\u2026..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The crater started erupting 2 days before we arrived<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lunch with a view of steam rising and a few red spots in the crater<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Map of the park<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Our room was on the ground floor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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We walked along the rim path a short distance from the hotel for this view of the eruption. A park ranger suggested that we get up early, drive to the de<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lava tubes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Starting into Lava tubes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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In we went<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Tunnel made by lava<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Views of the steaming crater we\u2019re everywhere <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Dinner at the hotel with the glowing sunset and the glowing crater<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saturday, January 7, 2023. We drove past massive lava fields, most of the sharp A\u2019a type. You can remember this because if you walked on this type of lava you would be screaming Ah, Ah. The other less common type of lava is Pahoehoe lava which is smooth and glassy. Jim loves a good bakery, … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry","explorer-thumbnail-icon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5p6Ax-1nU","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herons-flight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herons-flight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herons-flight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herons-flight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herons-flight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5326"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.herons-flight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5345,"href":"https:\/\/www.herons-flight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5326\/revisions\/5345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.herons-flight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herons-flight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.herons-flight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}