Big Island....mmmm.....lava

The Hawaiian Big Island is awesome, and volcanoes national park is *the* place to study volcanoes:

• Walked on still-steaming lava in a volcano crater.
  

• Walked through a 390m lava tube, only 90m of which was lit. All the other tourists thought we were hardcore with our headtorches. Em freaked out so we probably did about 80m of very dark tunnel.
  
  
  
  
• Saw roads and areas of bush that had been destroyed by lava.
  

• Watched the glow of lava from the crater rim at night.
  
• Saw amazing waterfalls and rainforest.