Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, An Introduction

Written and Produced by Donald B MacGowan
Narrated by Frank Burgess
Still and Video Photography by Donnie MacGowan and Frank Burgess

Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park is a magical, spiritual, wondrous, strange and beautiful place. The Park comprises a land of great contrasts and contradictions ranging from dry as dust desert to teeming tropical jungle; from frigid sub-arctic wasteland to steaming black sand beaches and rivers of flowing lava. Easily the most captivating part of any trip to The Big Island, most people don't think to schedule enough time to explore this amazing place and wind-up hurrying through, wishing they'd saved more time to see all the wonders of the goddess's home. Established in 1916, the Park is almost half a million acres in area, about the size of O'ahu, but lots more interesting.

The star attractions in the Park are a pair of active volcanoes; Mauna Loa is the largest mountain on earth and Kilauea is most active volcano on earth. However, there are numerous other wonders from lava tubes to crawl down, black sand beaches with sea turtles to watch, mysterious petroglyph fields to explore, tropical jungles to hike through, endangered bird species to find, happy-face spiders to amuse and an otherworldly volcanic landscape so fresh it's still steaming. In places it's so fresh it's still flowing.

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[BeachesMountains]

Really appreciate this super-informative Intro to the Park: Mahalo!