This is a steam vent with in the park. We stood in the steam for a bit to warm up. It's about 80 degrees down on the coast, but we're at about 4ooo feet and the temp is in the 50's or 60's. The steam actually got uncomfortably hot at times.
The pillar of smoke and steam is a new eruption that started last March. Because of it, they've had to close part of the crater rim drive. The crater is called the Kilauea Caldera.
This is the Kilauea Crater, it's about a tenth the size of the Caldera. I can't get the whole crater in the picture, but to give you an idea of how big it is, there's two people in the picture. Can you see them?
Some times lava creates tubes from cooling and winds up traveling through them. This is the Thurston Lava Tube. It rains a lot on this part of the island and rain water seeps through the roof and drips down into the tube.
The kids are sitting on a shelf inside the tunnel. It's like a smaller tube was carved out of the side of the main tube.
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