We woke up to our bodies hurting from our Trail of Tears hike and decided that we should snorkel before breakfast and that should make us feel better. It made us feel great! We felt like we were in a real life Finding Nemo! We saw all of these crazy colorful fish that we usually only see on TV or at aquariums. Every few seconds one of us was pointing and motioning to each other showing the other one a new fish we found. It was truly amazing! This was my first time snorkeling and the small tidal pools were comforting to me. We explored a few different tidal pools and our goal was to see a turtle, but no luck.
We decided to take the locals advice and head out to highway 130 to see the lava, hoping this was going to be a better hike then the day before. I did some online research and found that this was a successful place to see lava. Again, the guide told us to ignore the signs saying it was closed. We headed there and saw this vast grey lava field. We parked among the other cars and headed out with our cameras. From our car we could see glowing orange lava and started heading that way. On the way we found a car that was engulfed in lava.
We were amazed with the lava flows that created different formations.
We could feel the heat as we were getting closer to the fresh lava, it wasn't unbearable and no our shoes were not melting to the ground. After a 10 min walk we saw a group of people and headed there way because we knew they were looking at something good, and it was.
We decided to take the locals advice and head out to highway 130 to see the lava, hoping this was going to be a better hike then the day before. I did some online research and found that this was a successful place to see lava. Again, the guide told us to ignore the signs saying it was closed. We headed there and saw this vast grey lava field. We parked among the other cars and headed out with our cameras. From our car we could see glowing orange lava and started heading that way. On the way we found a car that was engulfed in lava.
Wow! We were all amazed to see real live flowing lava about 5' away from us. We were taking pictures and feeling the heat. The ground was hot and did puncture an Eco Sense Poland Spring bottle that we put down for a minute or two. We spent a good amount of time here and took a lot of pictures and a few HD videos of the flow. The sound of the flow heating up and breaking through the old cold flow was like the sounds of Pop Rocks in your mouth.
We ended our day by driving the scenic route around the Big Island and seeing water falls, beaches etc.
Time to pack up because we are heading to Maui in the morning!
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