Day 29 - 10,000 Miles, Hilo

Day 29 - 10,000 Miles
We had a quick overnight cruise from Maui to Hilo which gave us the opportunity to visit Kalapana, the site of the lava flow of the 2018 eruption of Kilauea.

The landscape went from dense rainforest to alien like plateaus. The lava created new cliffs and beaches and left a path of complete destruction in its wake. The new black sand beaches are beautiful to behold. The cliffs shown in these pictures were created by the lava and are some 50 yards further into the ocean and replaced the previous slowly sloping peaceful beaches.Read more