Kilauea Iki crater hike 05-10-2014

Start of the hike - through the rain forest!

Nice gigantic ferns and exotic flowers are surrounding me... But what a shitty weather for photography :(

Baby-fern

...veeeery big ferns are all around...

What a funny spirals?... (see farther)

Kilauea Iki crater overlook. Notice a lighter hiking path crossing the crater it in the middle.The weather sucks...

Steaming vent detected!

The mystery of the purple spirals is revealed! It's also a fern - surprise :D

Look at another side of the crater

Some amazingly smelling flower

The rim of the crater

Crater rim and a steaming neighbor caldera in the back-plan

This steaming area over the rim is the caldera of the currently active volcano Kilauea

Forest

Entering the crater...

These orchids are not native to Hawaii, they are introduced from Asia. Still beautifull

Crater overlook

Fern is the first plant to start growing in the wet lava cracks

Piles of broken lava sheets

It might be dangerous to hike the young lava fields - the fragile lava layer might brake right under your feet

Stone pyramids are international

Looks like broken asphalt...

Cracked and broken lava field

Impressive cracks in the lava crust

The bottom of the crater is hard, like a huge asphalted field. Steaming vents are everywhere, white spots - sulphide

Hello rain...

It's heavily raining, water is dripping from my nose... And all the sulfur, which was collected in the air, is on my skin now... Hope I will not loose my hair after this shower

Inside the volcanic tube

Ripe coconuts!

One of the Hilo beaches

What is these feeding fish?! Sharks???!!!!

Nah, just some kind of carps... :(

If you think those white spots are some white flowers on the tree - think twice ;D

Amazing heron lake

Herons...