Trolls in Hawaii - Paradise Post 4

Field of cooled lava

Day 2 on the island of Hawaii and the Trolls start the day back at the Volcanoes National Park with a helicopter tour scheduled for the afternoon.

Lil Dude Troll in a small cooled lava tube

There were many mini-lava tubes. These are a little dangerous
if you step on them and they break as the lava rocks can
be very sharp and will easily cut you if you are not careful.

Pu'u Loa (Hill of Long Life) is in the ancient land division of
Ahupua'a on the southern flank of the Kilauea volcano in
the National Park. It is considered a sacred place. There are
over 23,000 petroglyphs pecked into the hardened lava.

The petroglyphs consists of various types of circles or cupules.

There are also other geometric and cryptic designs, canoes with
sails, feathered capes and human representations known as
anthropomorphs.

Lava fields just a few years old will already have grasses
starting to grow.  And more land is added to the island.

An early afternoon helicopter tour of the island is well worth the
cost as the Trolls were able to see flowing, red-hot lava, towns
which had been wiped out by lava flows, large waterfalls not
accessible by the general public because they are on private
land and miles upon miles of the beautiful coastline.

If you have problems with motion sickness, be sure to take some
medicine for it. The helicopters come with air sickness bags
for a reason.