{"id":517,"date":"2016-12-26T05:10:34","date_gmt":"2016-12-26T09:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.searsie.com\/sabbatical\/?p=517"},"modified":"2016-12-23T09:07:58","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T13:07:58","slug":"kaumana-caves-in-hilo-hawaii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.searsie.com\/sabbatical\/2016\/12\/26\/kaumana-caves-in-hilo-hawaii\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaumana Caves in Hilo, Hawaii"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kate and I went on a little adventure in the Lava Tubes in\u00a0Kaumana Caves park, just outside of Hilo. \u00a0This is the first time I have ever really adventured into a cave with out a guide.<\/p>\n

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This was a guard chicken, guarding the caves. He was a bit cocky. I am pretty sure he was Irish. His name was McNuggets. To be honest he had good tastes … like Teriyaki.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Kate at the cave entrance.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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A rather large entrance from one section to another.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We spent a couple of hours exploring the cave. \u00a0There was stair case that descended down into the cave where it had previously collapsed. We explored both sides of the cave. The cave system was mostly easy going. There were many different types of formations. \u00a0It was constantly dripping on us. \u00a0Sometime the ceiling was 40 feet tall and times it was only a couple feet tall. I am guessing we went about a mile total. \u00a0To the right, the cave looks to have been intentionally collapsed. \u00a0We probably could have \"img_0579\"shimmied around and gotten past it, but this was our first time out spelunking and did not want to get in over our heads. To the left the cave comes to a skylight where you can climb out. \u00a0We could have kept going, but again we had had enough for one day and decided to head back into town and get some lunch at the Hilo Burger Joint. \u00a0We are considering doing some more spelunking in lava tubes. These lava tubes last had lava in them in the 1800s, which makes them relatively new. \u00a0 Some of the lava tubes on the islands are miles and miles long.<\/p>\n

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A narrow cave passage. You go first, I am too scared. Make sure there is nothing dangerous on the other side.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Kate posing in a large room. A lot of this cave was marked with graffiti.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Another part of the cave. An example of the type of what is left behind when the lava tube is eventually drained of lava.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kate and I went on a little adventure in the Lava Tubes in\u00a0Kaumana Caves park, just outside of Hilo. \u00a0This is the first time I have ever really adventured into a cave with out a guide.   We spent a couple of hours exploring the cave. \u00a0There was stair case that descended down into the … Continue reading Kaumana Caves in Hilo, Hawaii<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,18,16,1],"tags":[111,110,112],"class_list":["post-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny","category-hawaii","category-uk","category-uncategorized","tag-hilo","tag-kaumana-caves","tag-spelunking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.searsie.com\/sabbatical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.searsie.com\/sabbatical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.searsie.com\/sabbatical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.searsie.com\/sabbatical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.searsie.com\/sabbatical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.searsie.com\/sabbatical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":548,"href":"http:\/\/www.searsie.com\/sabbatical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions\/548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.searsie.com\/sabbatical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.searsie.com\/sabbatical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.searsie.com\/sabbatical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}