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It was a couple of years ago and friends and I had flown to the Kona Side
of the Big Island where the National park is and where lava is almost always flowing into the sea there from the
national park. However, sometimes it comes up through the ground further inland like today. When I was there there were places like near a trash collection site where the chain link fence was melted by the lava a few years before where you were allowed to visit. But, even then since it was an active volcano site there were guards to prevent you from going into some dangerous areas even then that were still active near Pahoa. So, this whole area could become eventually (including possible the city of Pahoa) a volcanic site and maybe a part of the National park in the future through these vents and fissures and lava breaking up through the surface.
At the time we flew into Kona Airport from California in order to snorkel at some of the wonderful snorkling sites along the Kona coast. But, my friends are musicians and were playing a concert in HIlo, Hawaii too so we drove up over the top between Moana Loa and Mauna Kea at high altitude on the newer road there. (which wasn't there when I lived there in 1974) in Hilo with my first wife and baby son.
From HIlo it is an easy drive to Pahoa and "Hawaii Volcanoes National Park by the way. There is an international Airport in HIlo and in Kona by the way too for inter-island flights or from the U.S. mainland or from other locations around the world. The big island is very large and it is about 400 miles to drive all the way around the outside of it.
Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park (U.S. National Park Service) - NPS.gov
https://www.nps.gov/havo/index.htm
Volcanoes are monuments to Earth's origin, evidence that its primordial forces are still at work. During a volcanic eruption, we are reminded that our planet is an ever-changing environment whose basic processes are beyond human control. As much as we have altered the face of the Earth to suit our needs, we can only ...
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