Kilauea Iki crater hike 05-10-2014 by OSphoto by OSphoto

Kilauea Iki crater hike 05-10-2014

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Oct 06, 2014
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Kilauea Iki crater hike 05-10-2014

Oct 06, 2014
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_DSC6178 (Start of the hike - through the rain forest!)

_DSC6179 (Nice gigantic ferns and exotic flowers are surrounding me... But what a shitty weather for photography :()

_DSC6180 (Baby-fern)

_DSC6182 (...veeeery big ferns are all around...)

_DSC6184 (What a funny spirals?... (see farther))

_DSC6197 (Kilauea Iki crater overlook. Notice a lighter hiking path crossing the crater it in the middle.The weather sucks...)

_DSC6198 (Steaming vent detected!)

_DSC6199 (The mystery of the purple spirals is revealed! It's also a fern - surprise :D)

_DSC6202 (Look at another side of the crater)

_DSC6206 (Some amazingly smelling flower)

_DSC6214 (The rim of the crater)

_DSC6224 (Crater rim and a steaming neighbor caldera in the back-plan)

_DSC6222 (This steaming area over the rim is the caldera of the currently active volcano Kilauea)

_DSC6232 (Forest)

_DSC6248 (Entering the crater...)

_DSC6255 (These orchids are not native to Hawaii, they are introduced from Asia. Still beautifull)

_DSC6253 (Crater overlook)

_DSC6261 (Fern is the first plant to start growing in the wet lava cracks)

_DSC6262 (Piles of broken lava sheets)

_DSC6263 (It might be dangerous to hike the young lava fields - the fragile lava layer might brake right under your feet)

_DSC6270 (Stone pyramids are international)

_DSC6271 (Looks like broken asphalt...)

_DSC6273 (Cracked and broken lava field)

_DSC6275 (Impressive cracks in the lava crust)

_DSC6277 (The bottom of the crater is hard, like a huge asphalted field. Steaming vents are everywhere, white spots - sulphide)

_DSC6280 (Hello rain...)

_DSC6284 (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)

_DSC6286 (Inside the volcanic tube)

_DSC6295 (Ripe coconuts!)

_DSC6305 (One of the Hilo beaches)

_DSC6306 (What is these feeding fish?! Sharks???!!!!)

_DSC6310 (Nah, just some kind of carps... :()

_DSC6323 (If you think those white spots are some white flowers on the tree - think twice ;D)

_DSC6315 (Amazing heron lake)

_DSC6320 (Herons...)

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