A very small lava tube with a new resident.
Kilauea Iki Crater Trail.
Looks like an elephant. This is on the trail to Thurston Lava Tube.
Trail to Thurston Lava Tube.
Entrance to Thurston Lava Tube.
Inside the Thurston Lava Tube looking out to the entrance.
Inside Thurston Lava Tube. The flash shows the glass in the lava.
A gift to Madam Pele inside Thurston Lava Tube. The flash shows the glass in the lava.
The exit out of Thurston Lava Tube.
I had read about this part of the lava tube so I brought my flashlights. But as you can see, I could not go back up in there.
A crater off of chain of craters road.
an old lava lake in one of the craters.
When lava flows fast and hits a tree the lava crusts over fast. Later the tree burns out and leaves this hole.
Here the lava is rusting of the iron that is in it.
