Tag: big-island
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Park # 43: Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park (and Mauna Kea)
We devoted Monday to visiting Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park, home of Kīlauea, the most active volcano in the world. Kīlauea has been in an active eruption pattern since December 2024, with eruptions of 7-24 hours every 1-3 weeks. Like all of Hawai’i’s volcanoes, it is a shield volcano rather than the more explosive composite volcanoes…
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Hello, Hilo
On Friday night, I caught an overnight flight from American Samoa back to Honolulu (arriving just in time for sunrise), connecting to a Saturday morning flight to Hilo on the southeast shore of Hawai’i’s Big Island. My parents picked me up from the airport, as they had already arrived a few days before and Margaret…