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| Start the visit by a very nice explanation by a park ranger. |
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| Getting ready to go 15 feet under the earth into a 30mile long tunnel which may lead to the sea - The Thurston lava tube |
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| Roof of the tube meets the floor of the tube. Pitch dark. A complete darkness, a complete silence. No life except for the crickets that are voiceless and live on the penetrating roots of the trees above. |
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| Leaving the tunnel, into the light.. |
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| After the volcanic ash plants start to colonise. |
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| The rest of the tree was probably buried under the volcanic ash, but the tree survives and lives to tell the tale - Ohia. |
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| Dodonaea looking so glorious |
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| A very tourist picture of the lava falling into the ocean. The coast is amazing, the waves angrily thrash against the rock. One can sense tremendous energy in this place. |
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| Thaar she glows in the evening.. The crater at night view from the Jaggar museum |
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| Rainforests |
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| Ceiling of the lava tubes - the little protrusions are called nipples, the edges are titanium coated!! Plumbers and geologists have much in common. |
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| View of the caldera |
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| Another view |
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| Smoke from the sulphur springs |
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| Sulfur banks by dusk |
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