Today we went to Volcano national park.
With the non-travelling toddler, it was a very long trip. It was about a hour and a half drive from our home but with a couple of pit stops along the way it made it more like two hours and a half. Luckily, we were able to make our stops at bakeries and other park like areas. The bakery was pretty good; the claim to fame was that it was the southern most bakery in the USA. I was feeling a bit car sick myself, dealing with Lucas as well as the winding roads so I didn't try anything from the bakery aside from some water. Oh yeah, the water in Hawaii, at least where we are staying, that comes from the tap is pretty awful tasting. At least, it is to me. I'm sure its clean and there's nothing wrong with it, but man... I don't like it one bit. Mother in law, makes some tea with it and I can still taste the nasty bog water.
Volcano was cool. Big crater. Road down to lava making its way into the ocean was closed so we didn't see that. We went to see an abandoned lava tube... that was pretty cool. Amazing to think how hot the lava must be to just burrow its way through the earth like that. I imagined that it was made from a giant prehistoric earth worm.
There were some seismometers at the volcano observatory. They use them as a advance warning system for the next eruption. I would think that some passive listening and imaging may show fluid flow. Maybe some spectral information exists that show flow through faults volcano opening.
- mp
DJOTD: What do you call a dog with no legs. Doesn't matter, he isn't coming anyways.
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