What happens after a storm passes?

The sun comes out and there's not a cloud in the sky!
But because of that storm, the ocean gets a little rough so there's no going in the water yet.















Instead we took a little hike/walk to what used to be a secluded beach (now the haoles know about it; haole=Caucasian) where we saw many a turtle swimming and sunning.
State law says you need to stay 20 ft from the turtles but a park ranger let me walk out on the lava to snap a picture of this one. The ranger says he was sleeping....even if they look dead, they're sleeping...I'm not so sure.














From this section of beach (which is more lava then sand) we took a track over the old lava flow of 1800 to try and find the Queen's Bath-so named because only royalty were permitted access to the sacred waters.
After tracking over the lava field-a place where you do not want to trip, stumble, fall or stub your toe! and which looks like a moonscape-we discovered what we thought was the bath....a cold, fresh water pool surrounded by very large piles of man-stacked lava rock (Christopher thought they were guard towers).

However, now that I sit down to write the blog and I do a little research on the sights we've seen, I find that this place is not Queen's Bath...we were way off! I can't find anything in the guidebooks or on line to tell me what this place is.
There were trails to it (once we found them)and a marker indicating it was a protected area but there is nothing I can find in regards to a name. Oh well...we'll have to go back out and find the actual bath.





After that rigorous trek, we picked up Wayne (aka Makoto), Christopher's brother, who took us to a blowhole that was on a private golf course along the ocean. Blowholes are a natural occurrence that's the result of a lava tube (a sort of lava cave)being open to the ocean at one end and having the "roof" open to the surface further down the tube. As the surf comes in, water flows into the tube-the more rough the surf, the more pressure into the tube and the higher the tower of water out the "blowhole". Check it out.....

Addendum! After reading up on it a little more...it was Queen's bath that we "discovered". Seems that there are a number of "Queen's baths" scattered across the island. Anything that's considered an exceptional place to bathe is called Queen's bath....