Though I have always loved the Hawaiian Islands and have lived there up to a year at a time I found eventually I always got "Island Fever" even when I lived on the Big Island of Hawaii in 1974 in Hilo, Hawaii then. The Queen's Bath I got to swim in with friends visiting from Alaska and my wife and then baby son then. But, some time after that the Queen's bath was covered over with more lava and is gone now. It was on the south side of Hawaii if you drive past Volcanoes National Park if you are driving from Hilo if you want to know where it was once located.
Here is Lava covering the Queen's Bath in 1987.
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Lava flow enters Queens Bath, Kilauea Volcano, 1987
Detailed Description
Bystanders watch steam rising from Queens Bath as lava flow enters the water. Lava overran Highway 130 at 0748 Hawaii Standard Time on the same morning at the western margin of the Kapa'ahu flow. By the end of the day, Punalu'u heiau was overrun, and Queens Bath was filled with lava.
Details
Image Dimensions: 3072 x 2048
Date Taken:
Location Taken: HI, US
Selected Images of the Pu‘u ‘O‘o–Kupaianaha Eruption, 1983–1997
USGS Digital Data Series DDS-80, 2003
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