Kilauea was back to having two splurging points and between the surges there was more popping action going on. I have a video here.
For the first time, we got a parking spot at Jaggar, the official lookout point, it was a miracle. This is what a thinned-out crowd looked like.
Came back to the Haven and ate breakfast and napped.
We found out that everything restaurant-wise is closed on Sunday. It stopped raining, so we decided to drive south and go to a black sand beach, Punalu'u.
The sand was darker than Santorini and it was very pretty.
A lone sea turtle was trying to sleep on the beach.
He kept scooting up when the tide got too close. I have a video of him squirming here.
Near the beach we ate at Punalu'u Bake Shop. Their bread is distributed all over the country and it was good. The food, not so much. But the desserts helped make up for it. Ice cream and a malasalada, a passion fruit glazed doughnut. It was delicious.
We drove back to Volcano and did the mile-long hike in the bird park near the National Park. No one else was on the trail. So quiet and peaceful with singing birds hidden in the vegetation. It drizzled on us, but even that felt soothing.
We saw some birds that weren't afraid of us and resembled fancy farm chickens and roosters.
Drove to the volcano for the sunset and a rainbow splayed across the sky and ended at the crater.
It was quite surreal, especially since it wasn't raining.
Sunset.
Back to the Haven and ate Thai leftovers and journaled with a dvd about Hawaiian Stars and the Observatory at Mauna Kea playing in the background. Now I want to go there, too.
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