August 30, 2024 • 8 mins
"If you’re planning a jaunt to the Big Island of Hawai’i, get in the hot seat. Immerse yourself in the might, power and wonder of nature’s cauldron. I recently took my first foray to Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park. The sheer size of the park is staggering – nearly as big as the entire island of O’ahu. The park climbs from sea level to over 4000 metres and encompasses two volcanoes – Kīlauea, one of the world’s most active volcanoes and Mauna Loa, the world’s largest active volcanic mountain."
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast
from News Talks.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
A'd be Mike Howardley's our travel corresponding Good morning.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Sir, Good morning Jack. Prediction time bodies by three.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Oh, I'm glad. You know what I said at the
very start of the show this morning that I thought
the Springwalk's going to win. I reckon they're going to
win by eleven. But when I said that, I did
that kind of that audible intake of breath, and I
was like, is today a day where I want to
get a thousand texts telling me why I'm wrong about this,
that I don't know anything? And I was like, do
(00:41):
I really want to pick that fight? And then I
was very surprised to go on the tab website and
look at the odds because I am not the only
one picking South Africa. So Sutdifica is paying a dollar
forty seven at the moment New Zealand, the All Blacks
paying two sixty according to the JB, which is I reckon,
the longest odds that the All Blacks have had in
some time. But yes, you know, we know how difficult
(01:02):
it is there. If they can get up, it doesn't
mean I don't.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Want the All Blacks to win.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
If they can get up, it would be such a
great victory for them, So he's hunting.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
I suppose.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
I reckon we might win next week, but I think
Alice Park too tough.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Alice Dung and Joe Berg.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yeah, and given how the South Aficans have been playing
over the last couple of weeks, Yeah, it's going to
be It's gonna be a tricky run, but hey, you
never know, and it will certainly be Yeah, be a
pretty epic epic test.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
News took of course.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Life coverage from three o'clock tomorrow morning. Now we are
focusing on Hawaii's Volcanoes National Park, which I reckon is
in terms of the names of national parks, has to
be right up there. So just how big is Volcanoes
National Park?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
She is a whopper. If you were planning a jaunt
to the Big Island, you will really want to set
aside some decent time to explore Hawaii's hot seat, because,
to put it in context, it's as big as the
entire island of OAHUU. So we're talking serious terrain and
it's the only US national park that can teut tropical
(02:04):
rainforest and an act of so a lot of really
novel features to it. One of my guides, the Ejects, said,
the park boasts six of the Earth's thirteen climate zones.
So in terms of scenery and terrain and just sheer variety, Yeah,
I was truly surprised just how varied the place is.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Yeah, right, so there are and there are two big
volcanoes there, right, Yes, so.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
You've got Mana Loa and the more active Keeler Wayer.
What really blew my hair back is that even though
Mana Lola reaches the same altitude as Mount Cock, she's
actually nine thousand meters from tip to toe because half
of her is underneath the ocean. So that actually makes
Mana Lola a thousand meters taller than Mount Everest, which
(02:55):
is quite infesting. Oh yeah, yeah, because there's not actually
much of Everest underneath the ground. But yeah, above sea
level obviously is the tallest. But when it comes to
keep away this very feisty, effusive neighbor to Manala, her
(03:15):
last major eruption was six years ago, destroyed seven hundred homes. Bang,
thanks for coming. But she's also the land builder. And
you will notice this. There are just hundreds of acres
that she created six years ago, particularly along the coastline
where all that molten lava meets the sea and it
just extends out the coastline. She did erupt for eight
(03:36):
hours in June, but it was just a very short
lived affair. But even when she's not erupting, she is
constantly steaming.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Yeah, can you self drive it?
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Yeah, it's definitely the best way to do it. So
from Heilo Airport, it's just a forty five minute drive
into the National Park. So grab a rental from Helo Airport,
head to the aptly named village of Volcano. And I'm
always amused to Jack and I think we've talked about
this before an American National part. They are so tailor
(04:08):
made to be supremely lazy. You've got these beautiful paves,
loop roads that they're around all the attractions. So yeah,
you can enjoy a very lazy panoramic drive. But for
the view of views, you've got to head to Hollo
Mao Maoh Crater. And this is like a crater within
a crater. It's where many Native Hawaiians believe this is
(04:32):
where the Goddess of fire Pile currently resides. So she
smokes by the day and if you strike it lucky
come nightfall, you can see the flickering molten hellfire glow
of that crater's lava lake after dark, which is absolutely mesmerized.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Yeah, oh that sounds very special. Cool. So what were
some of your favorite attractions.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Yeah, well, another place to head is Steam Vents. That's
another classic viewpoint, and in the cool of dawn, she
is pumping these huge plumes of steam. It's like the
factory inside the National Park. And from Steam Vents you
can take a very short walk to Steaming Bluff, very
sort of self explanatory, and this viewpoint it kind of
(05:18):
resembles an inferno with steam pouring over the cliffs, just relentlessly.
Definitely do a walk called Devastation Trail. Great name, kind
of says it all once again.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
So this was a.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Rainforest that was incinerated by Kellerwayer about sixty years ago.
So you've got a very scarred landscape, sort of like
an ashen gray desert. But just as nature gives with
one hand and takes with the other, this brutal landscape
is being recolonized in front of your eyes. You can
see trees and ferns defiantly rising up from that black dirt.
(05:54):
Place your hands on the ground and you can feel
the hot pot directly beneath you.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Oh man, that's yeah, that sounds it. That sounds quite
unique and yeah, quite specially. So there are petrik right
the rock paintings, Yes, are they rock carvings?
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Is that differ?
Speaker 3 (06:12):
They are rest that's correct, Yep, they've been chiseled. So
there was a place called poo Ulua petroglyphs and they've
done a brilliant boardwalk loop trail. So obviously the boardwalkers
elevated above these vast lava flows so they don't damage
these chiseled drawings, thousands of them apparently at last count
(06:33):
there's twenty three thousands of them chiseled into the rocks.
They've been done over centuries by native Hawaiians. Lots of
animal and human figures, really fascinating. Another curiosity, first in
lava tube and this is enrobed in rainforests so beautifully lush.
Keep an eye out for the scarlet honeycreeper, which is
(06:56):
a spectacular bird. But the big Kahoona is this gigantic
lava tube and all it's all been artificially litz jack,
so it feels so ethereal. But these lava tubes have
formed to when the outer crust of a lava river hardens,
but the liquid lava beneath that crust continues to gush,
(07:17):
and then after all of that flow has strained out,
you were left with this big, hard, tunnel like shell.
So you can walk through the whole thing today. It
is so cool.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Oh yeah, ah, that's great.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Okay, So it would Volcano House, do you reckon be
the best place to stay?
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Yes, I would absolutely stress do the National Park, not
as a day trip, but for at least an overnight stay.
Definitely check out Volcano House. It's the only larging within
the park. It is actually Hawaii's oldest hotel. It was
first established back in the eighteen forties. So it's got
a very woodsy, sort of super sized bungalow feel, lots
(07:56):
of history, So many amazing people have stayed there, you know,
everyone from Mark Twain's JFK Familiar Earhart, you name it.
But you are literally sleepy on the edge of the
crater rim and I would have to say when it
comes to a room with a view looking out the
window and seeing that molten lava lake. Yeah, that takes
(08:16):
some beating.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
That sounds amazing. So is the volcano.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
This is the Volcanoes National Park, Volcano Village with Volcano House, correct,
So it shouldn't be too hard to get confused there.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
They make life easy for you.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Yeah, they do.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
They do.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
That sounds amazing. Hey, thank you so much. Eager to
get up, Mike, I think so.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Jack A tour of Ducy three in the morning.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Absolutely yeah, yeah, good work, fair fair call too.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Thank you so much. Mike Hardley there will make sure
All of his tips for traveling around Hawaii Volcano Hawaii's
Volcanoes National Park are up and available on the News
Talks the website.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, listen live
to News Talks He'd be from nine am Saturday, or
follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast
from News Talks.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
A'd be Mike Howardley's our travel corresponding Good morning.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Sir, Good morning Jack. Prediction time bodies by three.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Oh, I'm glad. You know what I said at the
very start of the show this morning that I thought
the Springwalk's going to win. I reckon they're going to
win by eleven. But when I said that, I did
that kind of that audible intake of breath, and I
was like, is today a day where I want to
get a thousand texts telling me why I'm wrong about this,
that I don't know anything? And I was like, do
(00:41):
I really want to pick that fight? And then I
was very surprised to go on the tab website and
look at the odds because I am not the only
one picking South Africa. So Sutdifica is paying a dollar
forty seven at the moment New Zealand, the All Blacks
paying two sixty according to the JB, which is I reckon,
the longest odds that the All Blacks have had in
some time. But yes, you know, we know how difficult
(01:02):
it is there. If they can get up, it doesn't
mean I don't.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Want the All Blacks to win.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
If they can get up, it would be such a
great victory for them, So he's hunting.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
I suppose.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
I reckon we might win next week, but I think
Alice Park too tough.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Alice Dung and Joe Berg.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yeah, and given how the South Aficans have been playing
over the last couple of weeks, Yeah, it's going to
be It's gonna be a tricky run, but hey, you
never know, and it will certainly be Yeah, be a
pretty epic epic test.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
News took of course.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Life coverage from three o'clock tomorrow morning. Now we are
focusing on Hawaii's Volcanoes National Park, which I reckon is
in terms of the names of national parks, has to
be right up there. So just how big is Volcanoes
National Park?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
She is a whopper. If you were planning a jaunt
to the Big Island, you will really want to set
aside some decent time to explore Hawaii's hot seat, because,
to put it in context, it's as big as the
entire island of OAHUU. So we're talking serious terrain and
it's the only US national park that can teut tropical
(02:04):
rainforest and an act of so a lot of really
novel features to it. One of my guides, the Ejects, said,
the park boasts six of the Earth's thirteen climate zones.
So in terms of scenery and terrain and just sheer variety, Yeah,
I was truly surprised just how varied the place is.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Yeah, right, so there are and there are two big
volcanoes there, right, Yes, so.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
You've got Mana Loa and the more active Keeler Wayer.
What really blew my hair back is that even though
Mana Lola reaches the same altitude as Mount Cock, she's
actually nine thousand meters from tip to toe because half
of her is underneath the ocean. So that actually makes
Mana Lola a thousand meters taller than Mount Everest, which
(02:55):
is quite infesting. Oh yeah, yeah, because there's not actually
much of Everest underneath the ground. But yeah, above sea
level obviously is the tallest. But when it comes to
keep away this very feisty, effusive neighbor to Manala, her
(03:15):
last major eruption was six years ago, destroyed seven hundred homes. Bang,
thanks for coming. But she's also the land builder. And
you will notice this. There are just hundreds of acres
that she created six years ago, particularly along the coastline
where all that molten lava meets the sea and it
just extends out the coastline. She did erupt for eight
(03:36):
hours in June, but it was just a very short
lived affair. But even when she's not erupting, she is
constantly steaming.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Yeah, can you self drive it?
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Yeah, it's definitely the best way to do it. So
from Heilo Airport, it's just a forty five minute drive
into the National Park. So grab a rental from Helo Airport,
head to the aptly named village of Volcano. And I'm
always amused to Jack and I think we've talked about
this before an American National part. They are so tailor
(04:08):
made to be supremely lazy. You've got these beautiful paves,
loop roads that they're around all the attractions. So yeah,
you can enjoy a very lazy panoramic drive. But for
the view of views, you've got to head to Hollo
Mao Maoh Crater. And this is like a crater within
a crater. It's where many Native Hawaiians believe this is
(04:32):
where the Goddess of fire Pile currently resides. So she
smokes by the day and if you strike it lucky
come nightfall, you can see the flickering molten hellfire glow
of that crater's lava lake after dark, which is absolutely mesmerized.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Yeah, oh that sounds very special. Cool. So what were
some of your favorite attractions.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Yeah, well, another place to head is Steam Vents. That's
another classic viewpoint, and in the cool of dawn, she
is pumping these huge plumes of steam. It's like the
factory inside the National Park. And from Steam Vents you
can take a very short walk to Steaming Bluff, very
sort of self explanatory, and this viewpoint it kind of
(05:18):
resembles an inferno with steam pouring over the cliffs, just relentlessly.
Definitely do a walk called Devastation Trail. Great name, kind
of says it all once again.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
So this was a.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Rainforest that was incinerated by Kellerwayer about sixty years ago.
So you've got a very scarred landscape, sort of like
an ashen gray desert. But just as nature gives with
one hand and takes with the other, this brutal landscape
is being recolonized in front of your eyes. You can
see trees and ferns defiantly rising up from that black dirt.
(05:54):
Place your hands on the ground and you can feel
the hot pot directly beneath you.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Oh man, that's yeah, that sounds it. That sounds quite
unique and yeah, quite specially. So there are petrik right
the rock paintings, Yes, are they rock carvings?
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Is that differ?
Speaker 3 (06:12):
They are rest that's correct, Yep, they've been chiseled. So
there was a place called poo Ulua petroglyphs and they've
done a brilliant boardwalk loop trail. So obviously the boardwalkers
elevated above these vast lava flows so they don't damage
these chiseled drawings, thousands of them apparently at last count
(06:33):
there's twenty three thousands of them chiseled into the rocks.
They've been done over centuries by native Hawaiians. Lots of
animal and human figures, really fascinating. Another curiosity, first in
lava tube and this is enrobed in rainforests so beautifully lush.
Keep an eye out for the scarlet honeycreeper, which is
(06:56):
a spectacular bird. But the big Kahoona is this gigantic
lava tube and all it's all been artificially litz jack,
so it feels so ethereal. But these lava tubes have
formed to when the outer crust of a lava river hardens,
but the liquid lava beneath that crust continues to gush,
(07:17):
and then after all of that flow has strained out,
you were left with this big, hard, tunnel like shell.
So you can walk through the whole thing today. It
is so cool.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Oh yeah, ah, that's great.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Okay, So it would Volcano House, do you reckon be
the best place to stay?
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Yes, I would absolutely stress do the National Park, not
as a day trip, but for at least an overnight stay.
Definitely check out Volcano House. It's the only larging within
the park. It is actually Hawaii's oldest hotel. It was
first established back in the eighteen forties. So it's got
a very woodsy, sort of super sized bungalow feel, lots
(07:56):
of history, So many amazing people have stayed there, you know,
everyone from Mark Twain's JFK Familiar Earhart, you name it.
But you are literally sleepy on the edge of the
crater rim and I would have to say when it
comes to a room with a view looking out the
window and seeing that molten lava lake. Yeah, that takes
(08:16):
some beating.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
That sounds amazing. So is the volcano.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
This is the Volcanoes National Park, Volcano Village with Volcano House, correct,
So it shouldn't be too hard to get confused there.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
They make life easy for you.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Yeah, they do.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
They do.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
That sounds amazing. Hey, thank you so much. Eager to
get up, Mike, I think so.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Jack A tour of Ducy three in the morning.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Absolutely yeah, yeah, good work, fair fair call too.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Thank you so much. Mike Hardley there will make sure
All of his tips for traveling around Hawaii Volcano Hawaii's
Volcanoes National Park are up and available on the News
Talks the website.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, listen live
to News Talks He'd be from nine am Saturday, or
follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
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