Volcanoes

Day 8 we go head out to see the Volcanoes of Hawaii. Once we get to the top where the visitor center was, I notice that it's drizzly and everyone has coats on. We open up the car door and WOW it's freezing. Hailey is in a sleeveless outfit, Joel and I are in short sleeve shirts. Needless to say the gift shop made good off of us!

This section was pretty cool. The steam was poureing out in a lot of places. quite tempting to step closer to get warm.

This was a beautiful spot. Breathtaking in many ways. When you look over the side it's a straight drop and this was a little wall and it didn't go very far. People could just walk right up to the edge.

This was pretty amazing to see the clear path of the lava.

I love to see small pieces of beauty in an area like this.

We were hoping to see the actual site where the lava was active but unfortunatly they had to close off the park due to the volcano being a little too active. It was putting off the harmful fumes that were way to dangerous for people to be near. You could see the haze that rolled over the mountains. They even had warnings posted that if you smelled anything or started feeling bad to leave the area you were in immediately.

This was a lot of fun to explore we just wish we had more time. It was about a 3 hour drive from our hotel and you had to be able to find it. There we several stops that we wanted to make but just couldn't squeeze it all in. Next time - right hon:)