A brief stop at the Volcano

Today we headed southeast, and arrived at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park in about 2 hours.  We had been there 2 years ago, and a lot has changed since then.


The Kileuea Crater that was spewing hot lava in 2017 exploded in recent lava flows, and the hot lava flowed out to the southeast.  As a result, the crater collapsed, and parts of it now look like a pile of gravel.  But things are still smoking, and it's a really interesting sight.

The crater road doesn't go much farther than the steam vents due to the 80,000 recent earthquakes, but there is a lookout adjacent to the steam vents.