Photos 5, page 2
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Back to Lava
| March 08, 2008 |
| And then on Saturday, March 8, they opened up the road again. It was a complete zoo! I'd thought there was a lot of people when we'd gone out on the 3rd but that was nothing compared to this! It was a feeding frenzy! Estimates were that there were 8,000 to 10,000 people that day! I've shown my previous hikes of the last week as well as the one we did today (red line). That's where the end of the lava is now: going into the ocean... |
| It was so crowded that I had to park It was so crowded that I had to park . This is looking back up the road road the end of the road the end of the road away away from where I parked! |
| This is what the end of the road looked like every other time I've been out. |
| And this is what it looks like now! |
| The trailer's been gone for quite some time now but otherwise this is what the road in looked like. |
| Now |
| Looking back |
| Before |
| Now |
| Looking back |
| End of the road for cars |
| My old friend Royal Gardens |
| This is where the new lava has cut across the road. Somewhere out there was the previous parking area. That structure in the distance is perhaps 500 yards past the parking area. |
| This is where the red line turns left at the spot marked "New Lava", looking toward "Crowd". |
| On the way to "Crowd", looking back at the road. |
| On the way to "Crowd". The smoke is from hot lava hitting the bushes. |
| I walked right through the "Crowd" area and circled around to come up on the lava from the other side. Royal Gardens in the background. |
| They finally came and chased me out of there. They didn't like people downstream of the lava... |
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