Hawaii Helicopter Ride

We had to get up very early.

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We got in the helicopter as the sun was rising.

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And it took off.

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And we flew high over the ground.

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Above the clouds

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Which really interfered with the scenicness.

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Fortunately the clouds started to clear.

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And then we could see the mini-volcanos.

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And the big ones.

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And the bigger ones.

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And the biggest one of all.

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Then we went over to the active one.

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Which had molten lava inside.

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It was splooping.

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Further down the mountain it was flowing

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Slowly flowing

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And cooling and crusting.

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There were small islands that the volcano hadn’t set on fire.

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This was a bigger one.

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You can see where the road used to be.

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At the edge there were a lot of dead trees.

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Then we were back over the green part of the island.

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The clouds were all gone.

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Then we went to the coast.

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And saw some whales.

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And some waterfalls.

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Very steep waterfalls.

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These ones were more inland.

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They were also steep.

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