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I started this Blog when I first started working with the North Lake College Summer Hawaiian Field Studies course. I knew that in 2 weeks, I would learn so much and I needed a place to document it. I was right. I went back through my pictures when I got home and thought, "Did we stop here? I don't remember this!". So I went back to my Blog and was reminded of that moment. So many great moments, so many great stories...here is where I document them. Please read, enjoy, send me questions, comments, etc.

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Wednesday, June 21, 2017

Day 4 - Volcanoes National Park

We started the day going to see another view of the Halemaumau crater and then learning about the plants. Students played "telephone" with the plants teaching each other about each plant.

Next, we went to the Lava Tube...with flashlights...the lights are not working inside right now.



At lunch, 4 Nenes came around.  We were able to watch them for a bit until a big bus came and we had to get closer to the Nenes. They went into the woods.  Boo!  They are such a cute bird!





After lunch, we headed down to the Sea Arch. We stopped at the A'a and Pahoehoe lava flow to see the difference.



On the way back up, we stopped at the "smoking trees" where there is some heat coming up from the volcano. The trees are covered in cyanobacteria. They look slimy and cool! We also checked out a pit crater.



Dinner was at the Military Camp's Cafe.  They were fixing Mongolian style food.  Not bad.


The evening ended with going back to the Halemaumau crater.  The lava was doing some really cool things. We could actually see it spitting up a bit.  Really cool! It was really hard to capture, so imagine lava being thrown up into the air from the lava lake.

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