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Volcanoes in the Sun HAWAII Volcanoes in the Sun November 9 – 21, 2021 Hosted by Gerry Van Kooten Aloha!Get ready for warmer temperatures as you join Gerry Van Kooten, geologist and volcano expert, on CALL/ CAA’s expedition to Hawaii. Made up of 132 volcanic islands, Hawaii is the world’s largest island chain. On this tour, you’ll visit three of the seven inhabited Hawaiian islands: Hawaii (also known as the Big Island), Kauai, and Oahu. This adventure combines volcanic and cultural exploration with not-to-miss Hawaiian sightseeing. You’ll spend multiple days in and around Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park. At Kilauea, we will experience the majestry of volcanoes and understand how volcanic landscapes are formed. We will walk on Hawaii’s youngest lava flow, then later see Hawaii’s oldest deeply weathered rocks on Kaui as we explore Waimea Canyon and the North Shore. You will also see green and black sand beaches, ancient temples, a coffee plantation, and Hawaii’s charming smaller towns like Kona and Hilo. The itinerary also includes waterfalls, a wildlife refuge, and botanical gardens. If this isn’t enough, there will be free time to enjoy the sunshine, to relax on a beach, or go snorkeling. Finally, your trip ends with a visit to the Pearl Harbor WWII Memorial. Don’t miss this custom-designed Hawaiian adventure. Space is limited. Projected Tour Cost $5,754* per person from Grand Rapids, based on double occupancy *Pricing will be available in January of 2021. See terms and conditions for price increase policy. Register online at bookings.wittetravel.com use booking code 110921VANK or complete and return the printed registration form. Hosted by Tour Pace Gerry Van Kooten Gerry Van Kooten, professor of geology emeritus, has led many student interim trips to the Hawaiian Islands. 907-202-1486 ACTIVE – Activity levels vary [email protected] from day to day. Sightseeing is often a brisk walk over distances of several miles on and uneven ground. Inclusions: 9, Tuesday 10, Wednesday 11, Thursday Depart, Arrive Kona Kona, South Point, Volcanoes National • Roundtrip flights Meeting at the Grand Rapids Hilo Park, Hilo • Accommodations airport, we check in for our flights After breakfast we head south Today we head into Volcanoes • Transportation in Hawaii to Kailua-Kona, the largest town of Kailua-Kona on the first leg of National Park to get a close • Inter-island flights on the Big Island of Hawaii. After our circumnavigation of Hawaii. look at one of the world’s most • Visits to three islands: the Big arrival, we check in at our hotel We will stop at a grocery store active volcanoes— Kilauea . Island, Kauai, and Oahu and enjoy a group dinner. (D) where you can buy snacks and We’ll start at the Visitor Center, lunch food as we will not be view the film and discuss the • Kona near restaurants on some days. landscape of Hawaii using a • South Point – Southernmost We head to South Point—the large topographic model. We point of the U.S. southernmost point of the Big will view the summit caldera, • Volcanoes National Park Island (and the United States), which collapsed during massive • Hilo where we’ll see wind farms, flank eruptions in 2018, and • Liliʻuokalani Park and Gardens impressive cliffs overlooking we will walk the Crater Rim the Pacific, ancient fishing trail past fumaroles and sulfur • Akaka Falls sites and green sand, plus get deposits. After a picnic lunch, • Coffee Plantation an introduction to how the we will hike on trails through the • Waimea Canyon Hawaiian Islands were formed. Kilauea Iki crater and Thurston • Wailua Falls We will likely see green sea Lava Tube. Total hiking distance • Pearl Harbor turtles at the classic black-sand is 4 to 5 miles, all on well- beach at Punaluu. Continuing maintained trails. Depending • And more! by bus over the summit of on volcanic activity, we will also Kilauea volcano, we head to visit Jagger Museum on the Hilo, our home base for the next caldera rim and view the active Akaka Falls five nights. We’ll enjoy a group Halemaumau pit crater. This Punaluu black sand beach dinner at the hotel. (B, D) evening we return to Hilo. (B, L) Lava flowing from the Kilauea volcano Thurston Lava Tube Cover: Na Pali coast, Kauai 12, Friday 13, Saturday 14, Sunday 15, Monday Volcanoes National Hilo Hilo, Kapoho, Hilo Akaka Falls, Kona Park, Hilo This morning we start with a The morning is open and you After breakfast we depart for Another adventurous day in visit to Lili‘uokalani Park and are invited to attend a worship Kona via the northern route. Volcanoes National Park. Today Gardens, the largest Japanese service (11 a.m.) in the historic Along the way we stop to visit we drive the Chain of Craters Gardens outside of Japan. Haili Congregational Church several places of interest: road where we will see lava flows We visit the imposing statue in downtown Hilo. Haili was scenic Laupahoehoe Point and along the coastline; examine of King Kamehameha on the established in 1824 and grew tsunamis, Akaka Falls, the small spectacular flow features where Hilo waterfront and discuss his dramatically under the early Portugese plantation town lava cascaded over steep ascent to ruler of the Big Island Congregational missionary Titus Honomu (with bakery), Waipio cliffs (pali); and view lava flows and eventual ruler of all the Coan, reaching over 10,000 Canyon, Tex’s malasadas, and covering the asphalt highway. islands. We will also discuss members, and was possibly the Puukohola Heiau National We will see Holei Arch, lava tree the vulnerability of Hilo to largest church in the world at the Historic Site (largest restored molds, Huluhulu cone, and the destructive Pacific tsunamis and time. After an independent lunch, temple in Hawaii). Lunch will be spectacular Mauna Ulu crater. how tsunamis have altered the we head to Pahoa and the Puna served at a restaurant along the Today we will hike about five waterfront and the town. After SE rift zone. Massive eruptions way. We then continue to our miles, mostly on trails except for visiting the Hilo Farmers’ Market, in 2018 threatened Pahoa and hotel in Kona, where dinner is one mile of overland travel to the we will have time to explore filled nearby Kapoho Bay with independent. (B, L) seldom visited Maunu Ulu crater Kamehameha Avenue with its lava, dramatically altering the rim. Midday we’ll enjoy a picnic wooden storefronts, art galleries, coastline and covering many lunch in the park. This evening small museums and a very nice hot springs and pools. We will we return to Hilo, where the ukulele shop. We visit the Hawaii see where lava threatened remainder of the day is at leisure. Tropical Botanical Garden in the infrastructure and drive new (B, L) afternoon, then return to Hilo. roads over fresh lava fields to the (B) Isaac Hale beach park. We will backtrack to Pahoa for dinner, then return to Hilo. (B) 16, Tuesday 18, Thursday Kona Waimea Canyon Bright and early we visit a Today we visit what is nicknamed coffee plantation. The volcanic “the Grand Canyon of the soil and mild tropical climate Pacific.” Waimea Canyon is a make for awesome Kona coffee deeply eroded canyon into a and we will see how it is grown basalt volcano. We visit several and processed. Sampling the spectacular canyon overlooks varieties is encouraged. We will and further discuss rock continue to Kaleakakua Bay weathering, volcanic plumbing, and view the site of the landing, geomorphology and invasive reception, and eventual death species. We will visit Koke’e of Captain James Cook, the State Park and Museum and European discoverer of Hawaii. look down on the rugged Na Pali After our visit we make our way coast of northern Kauai from back to Kona, where the rest high roadside overlooks (clouds of the day is free to shop and permitting). We return to our snoop. (B) hotel for individual dinner. (B) 17, Wednesday 19, Friday Kona, Kauai Wailua Falls, Kilauea This morning we head to the Point, and Hanalei airport for our flight to the island Our first stop today is to see the of Kauai. Upon arrival we tour beautiful Wailua Falls. From the southern coast of the island there we continue to the north visiting blowholes and Russian shore of the island. At Kilauea Fort Elizabeth State Historical Point Wildlife Refuge, we’ll see Park (built 1817) to learn the the historic lighthouse and bird history of Russia’s presence on sanctuary, including nesting the islands. We’ll also see the grounds for Laysan albatross mysterious Menehune irrigation and the endangered Nene ditch, supposedly built in one Hawaiian goose. After seeing night by the Menehune or “little taro farms, we visit the charming people” (perhaps Hawaii’s town of Hanalei of Puff the Magic equivalent to leprechauns), and Dragon fame. This is a perfect an unusual outcrop of “pillow” place to spend our last afternoon basalt. You may wish to walk on Kauai. The movie South the wobbly suspension bridge Pacific was filmed near here. used by the locals to cross the We’ll have a festive farewell Waimea River. Captain Cook dinner this evening. (B, D) has a statue in the nearby town of Waimea, marking the location 20, Saturday of his first island landfall. We Honolulu then head to the hotel for check- After breakfast we head to the in. Lunch and dinner are included airport for our flight to Honolulu. today. (B, L, D) Upon arrival, we head to Pearl Harbor for a tour of the Pearl Harbor museum, exhibits, and harbor.
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