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| Above, trees afire from underground lava tubes of Kilauea. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
The eruptions and lava flow from Kilauea volcano has stopped or subsided enough to allow visitors back into the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on the Big Island.
Hawai'i Magazine has an article on what visitors can expect when they visit the park.
It begins with:
After being closed for 134 days, most of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park reopened on Sept. 22, marking a miraculous comeback from months of eruptions, seismic activity and lava flows at Kilauea.
And although the visitor center, which is the first building you see when you enter the park, looks nearly the same as it did before the closure, some of the park’s other attractions have changed in significant ways. First, there is no more active lava in the park. The lava lake in Halemaumau Crater, a popular site for visitors and locals, has completely drained, and its distinctive orange-glow is no more. However, Halemaumau itself is still worth seeing as it has grown dramatically after numerous collapses on its crater walls.
It would be interesting to see the park now. I flew over the Kilauea volcano two years ago with Blue Hawaiian Helicopters.
To read more, go here.
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