After our day we headed back up to the Jaggar Museum in the Volcano National Park at about 10.30pm. From here you can get wonderful night views of Halema’uma’u. It is pitch black when you arrive at the parking lot to ensure that you get maximum views, navigating our way around to the viewing area would have been much easier had we taken a torch. Of course still back at the cottage were 3 torches, 1 book light and 2 head torches, in the car with us was ….. nothing.
After baby steps we managed to make our way there, while we couldn’t see anyone else there was one other person as we could hear them talking on their phone. Certainly not a place to be on your own in the dark, unless of course you had a torch!
It is surprising just how cold the wind is at the park, the temperatures are about 6-10C cooler than in Hilo, and the wind is like our southerly. I went up there with a thermal, a jacket and a blanket wrapped around me, still it was cold. Of course my husband would say otherwise.
The views were spectacular and very different to what we saw in the day as the photos will attest.
