One unexpected stop on our February 2014 visit to Hawaii was at a lava tube beside Queen Kaahumanu Highway just south of Kekaha Kai State Park and north of the Kona airport. During our excursions, we noticed a number of vehicles parked along side the road in the area so we stopped to see what was there. We found a 200 foot long section of a lava tube on the mountain side of the highway. We decided to explore a bit as shown in the pictures below.
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| The lava tube is about ten feet high at the visible entrance |
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| Broken rocks litter the floor of the tube |
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| Looking through the tube at light streaming in from the far entrance |
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| The tube contained a jumble of rocks with flow patterns |
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| A better view of the far entrance from inside the tube |
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| A section of the floor slab could have been cut by a saw, but wasn't |
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| Additional small tubes radiate out from the main one |
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| Looking back toward the highway |
The is no fee to visit the lava tube. There is no website about it either, but it does appear on USGS topographic maps.
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