Hawaii volcano tours teach you about seismic events that happened far below the surface of the ocean such as earthquakes and tectonic plate shifts that formed explosions and eruptions that reached higher and higher above the earth's surface.
What's amazing though, is how this activity from inside the earth's crust, stretches out to reach the skies above the earth.
There have been moments in life, when the stars have seemed so close I could reach out and hold them in the palms of my hands.
Instances where a sunrise has seemed so close it has felt like a whisper in my ear, a kiss on my cheek.
All of these occurrences have happened while visiting the volcanoes of Hawaii.
Sunrise at Haleakala Crater is like being in a painting.
It is mythology come to life.
One can see the Demigod Maui as he harnesses the sun and makes it slow its pathway across the island that is his namesake.
Time stands still, and there is no separation between land and sky, between a person and a sunrise.
At night on the top of snow covered Mauna Loa, on the island of Hawaii volcano, there are more stars than the sky can hold.
They are alive and vibrant, and seem to reach down and touch the soles of your feet.
You can dance among the stars on top of this volcano, and you can know joy.
But to really touch the sky you must fly in a helicopter.
When you soar in a helicopter over the active lava flows of the Big Island, it is as if you are part of the heat and steam, the creation and the destruction.
When you fly past the explosions that happen when magma meets sea, it's as if you are the sea itself, spraying up against the tropical skies.
When the blue of the sea reaches the blue of the sky, you are a part of both.
Flying over the island of Kauai, you are part of the downpour that has created one of the most dense and lush tropical rainforests in the world.
Flying along the Na Pali Coast, you are part of the jagged and rugged edge of coastline as it reaches out and blends into the atmosphere.
You can see the rush of waterfalls and the land that seems to reach up to meet them.
The Hawaiian Islands themselves, since their ancient inception, have done nothing but grow towards the heavens.
And they make it possible, whether by land or by air, for all of us to learn to grow, to reach, and to believe anything is possible when you can touch the sky.
What's amazing though, is how this activity from inside the earth's crust, stretches out to reach the skies above the earth.
There have been moments in life, when the stars have seemed so close I could reach out and hold them in the palms of my hands.
Instances where a sunrise has seemed so close it has felt like a whisper in my ear, a kiss on my cheek.
All of these occurrences have happened while visiting the volcanoes of Hawaii.
Sunrise at Haleakala Crater is like being in a painting.
It is mythology come to life.
One can see the Demigod Maui as he harnesses the sun and makes it slow its pathway across the island that is his namesake.
Time stands still, and there is no separation between land and sky, between a person and a sunrise.
At night on the top of snow covered Mauna Loa, on the island of Hawaii volcano, there are more stars than the sky can hold.
They are alive and vibrant, and seem to reach down and touch the soles of your feet.
You can dance among the stars on top of this volcano, and you can know joy.
But to really touch the sky you must fly in a helicopter.
When you soar in a helicopter over the active lava flows of the Big Island, it is as if you are part of the heat and steam, the creation and the destruction.
When you fly past the explosions that happen when magma meets sea, it's as if you are the sea itself, spraying up against the tropical skies.
When the blue of the sea reaches the blue of the sky, you are a part of both.
Flying over the island of Kauai, you are part of the downpour that has created one of the most dense and lush tropical rainforests in the world.
Flying along the Na Pali Coast, you are part of the jagged and rugged edge of coastline as it reaches out and blends into the atmosphere.
You can see the rush of waterfalls and the land that seems to reach up to meet them.
The Hawaiian Islands themselves, since their ancient inception, have done nothing but grow towards the heavens.
And they make it possible, whether by land or by air, for all of us to learn to grow, to reach, and to believe anything is possible when you can touch the sky.
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