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Our adventure began in the town of Volcano, HI
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We stayed in a pair of cabins in the rain forest!
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Abstract goldfish
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We stopped in at Big Island Candies to check out the production line
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They can melt a lot of chocolate with these bad boys!
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Getting ready to get in the helicopters!
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Get in tha choppah!
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All ready to go!
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Lifting off, with an in-cabin view!
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Some of the Mauna Loa macadamia farms. The tall cedars act as wind-breaks.
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Kaloli Point...here you can see what the normal coastline looks like
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This is the Kapoho lava flow of 1960...in the distance you can see the new lava field
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The still-smoking cinder cone of fissure 8
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There's still some lava draining out of fissure 8
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875 acres of brand new land
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New land, settling in next to the ocean
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The typical Hilo coastline
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Kawainui falls
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Our helicopter, operated by Blue Hawaiian Tours