On the second day of our trip Andy had planned a hike in the crater, Kilauea Iki, but we got rained out. We drove down the chain of craters road, hoping for better weather closer to the coast.
Our first stop was at the petroglyphs. It was a 3/4 mile hike, although it was raining most the time we stayed pretty dry under our raingear.
Leilani, who in the (non-blogging) meantime has broadened her Nemo obsession to include all sea creatures, especially dolpins, humpback whales and turtles, points excitedly to the petroglyph of a “Honu”. Leilani knows the Hawaiian words for at least a dozend animals.
Later we drove all the way down, to where the lava used to enter the ocean, and walked back to where it swallowed the road. The weather was much better.
In the evening we found a nice little Thai restaurant, much better than the Pizza place we had eaten at the first night. Leilani likes Thai food, but the curry was a little spicy for her taste. We told her it was important to learn to eat spicy food, and to drink plenty of water with it – which she did. She ate most the shrimps in oour food, and loved the Pad Thai.
