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  • Kilauea Caldera
  • me admiring nature's creation
  • Southwest Rift created by the 1974 flow
  • driving down Chain of Craters Road
  • we managed to stay alive without watching the safety video
  • we came all the way hoping to see eruption and collape and all that exciting stuff. bring it on!
  • recent lava flows made the road impassable
  • the lava flow ocean entry is still a few miles away where it produces a steam plume
  • we weren't able to see the red lava flow even with the help of binoculars
  • with my 3x zoom
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  • beautiful black sand beach
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  • new life is thriving in the field of devastation
  • close up shot reveals the color interior
  • cool lava rock formation
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  • red hot lava once flowed into the ocean from here
  • as we were driving back up,  a chunk of new land fell into the ocean and caused huge steam explo
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  • in ancient times, hawaiian fathers came to place their new born's umbilical cord in small holes
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