First, let me apologize for the bluriness of this photo. I have no tripod and apparently using my knees while sitting wasn't good enough. Go figure. LOL. Also maybe didn't use the best settings on my new camera, but this was the best shot I got of this, so it'll have to do. This was what we got to see as far as a lava flow from Kilauea while we were there. The current eruption is coming down the mountain in lava tubes, at least this close to the coast, so unless you hike a good ways, you're not going to see much of it. It's over a 10 mile hike one way to get to where you might see the eruption as most would expect to see it with lava erupting and flowing from the Pu'u 'O'o vent. But if you drive down the Chain of Craters Road to the coast, park the car and then hike about a half mile past the ranger station on paved road and then another quarter mile over lava flows from the current eruption (which demolished the town of Kalapana, the old Ranger station and lots of stuff in between I'm sure) then you get to where you've got this vantage point. We could have hiked another 2-2.5 miles from here to get a much better and closer view of the tubes, but that seemed a bit treacherous to be doing since the return trip would be in darkness with flashlights. Lava flows aren't exactly the most even surface to walk on and it's awkward at times in broad daylight as is. So...what we've got here is the orange glow that comes from the occasional skylight in the lava tube as it comes down the mountain. It was really cool...at the ranger station they have a telescope set up pointed at one so you can even see it in broad daylight, but with the naked eye you can't see anything more than the mountainside. Then as night begins to fall you see one or two pop up and then more and more the darker it gets until there's a whole chain of them leading down to the ocean. Well worth the trip even just to see this. I've got a few shots in pitch black with the night setting on the camera, but they're even shakier than this one, and not so much to see...solid black with orange squiggles. LOL. So while it's a bit blury and shaky, I hope you'll still find the shot worthwhile. For those of you who'd like to see more lava shots, I discovered sharky_'s gallery the day we got back from Hawai'i...he's got some really cool photos. I hope to get back again sometime and get a chance to get some photos that look more like his. Here's the link to his gallery. http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/browse.php?user_id=297434 John (click for full view)