Friday, August 15, 2008

Hot Lava

The plan called for a foos caravan to the volcaones national park. We hit the rental car shuttle early. We got our van and came back to pick up the others. Grumbo was our fearless leader, so we only got off track once.

We hit the visitors center and the steam vents before haeading to Jagger museum and the big show. From there the plan was to head down to the lava tube. Our car headed out first and somehow we lost the group. Jenn Jamie and were with us and we hiked a trail for some more views before meeting the rest of the group coming out of the lava tube. The plan was made to leave the park and head to a black sand beach. We hiked the tube (sort of a cave without rock formations) and headed to the beach. The drive to the beach was pretty. Sings warning of fault line, cracks in the road and tsaumi evacuation areas let us know we were not on the mainland.

We made it to the beach, didn't see our foolish freinds so decided to explore on our own. Note to others. . . don't take off your shoes and slocks to walk on a black sand beach at noon. That stuff is HOT!!!!
(running out of minutes so I will finish this saga later)

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