Today we decided to take our biggest adventure and make the three hour trek to the southernmost point in the USA and, Kilauea, the only currently active volcano in the Hawaiian islands. We went to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park and drove along a road full of craters from different eruptions over the years and even saw a mountain that had been created from all of the lava. The road we were driving was supposed to go all the way through to a different part of the island called Hilo, but in the 1970′s a major eruption caused lava to flow over the road blocking the way. We drove up to where the lava started and hiked out over miles of lava until we could see where the volcano was currently erupting sending lava into the ocean and sending up smoke and extending the land mass of the island. We also drove through hills with pockets of smoke erupting from the heat from the volcano below. On the way out we stopped at a lava tube that we were even able to walk through! We even learned that there is a new Hawaiian island in the process of forming off the Southern Coast of the Big sland from a different volcano.