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Kilauea Volcano’s Southwest Rift and Ka’u

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Kilauea’s untamed leeward side, where life emerges from the raw elements.

Wind ripples on volcanic fallout in the Ka\'u Desert.A fault scarp half-buried by volcanic fallout in the Ka\'u Desert.Mauna Loa sunset over Ka\'u.The Ka\'u Desert trail near Mauna Iki.A fern finds a foothold in a cracked \'a\'a flow in the Ka\'u Desert.

Location of Ka\'u disctrict on Hawai\'i Island.Summary: Located mostly within Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park, historic lava flows and tephra fallout cover the volcanic Ka’u Desert on Kilauea’s west flank. Hiking in the company of nene and tropicbirds among the cinder cones, craters, faults and cracks of the less-traveled southwest rift zone is a raw and memorable experience of natural power, and the backcountry beaches are an effort divine.

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Kilauea Volcano’s Puna Coast

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Kilauea’s fertile slopes of Puna, the meeting of lava, humans and jungle.

Crystal-clear tidepools on the Puna coast of Hawai\'i Island.The indigenous pohuehue morning glory on a Puna beach.A breaking wave on the Puna coast near Kehena beach.Towering albezia trees at Lava Tree State Park.Surfers take to the water on the Puna coast of Hawai\'i Island.

Puna district tour area on Hawai\'i Island.Summary: The human, agriculture and jungle-covered Puna district on the southeastern slopes of Hawai’i Island is cut by Kilauea’s east rift zone, an ever-present volcanic threat to a quickly developing region that has already lost two communities to lava within the last 50 years. The fertile volcanic soil has cultivated an impressive display of vegetation to go along with a striking coastline, isolated beaches, and the ever-present historic lava flows.

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Hilo Town and Beyond

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Mythical waterfalls and sandy ocean coves surround historic Hilo town on the bay.

Pu\'u \'O\'o vent of Kilauea volcano fumes,top center, above Hilo town.Onomea Falls at Hawai\'i Tropical Botanical Garden north of Hilo.A sprawling monkeypod tree above Hilo\'s bayfront park.The Boiling Pots falls of the Wainaku river above Hilo town.A snow-capped Mauna Kea overlooks Hilo bay.

Hilo location on Hawai\'i Island.Summary: Since their creation by lava flows, the black sands of Hilo bay have seen many layers of civilization lap onto its shores. Rebuilt since the tsunamis of 1946 and 1960, Hilo town is an amalgamation of cultures and a center of activity for eastern Hawai’i Island, where people enjoy the pleasures and infrastructure of community within good access to parks, rivers, waterfalls, coastline and ocean endeavors, not to mention Kilauea volcano and the Hamakua coast.

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