When I went to Hawaii one of the coolest things I did was check out the live volcano. To this day it was one of the most awesome sights I’ve ever witnessed. Seeing a mountainside with liquid hot magma pouring out of it was enough to make Dr. Evil proud.

Well, since none of us has all night to watch lava make it’s way down a mountain, someone was kind enough to film a lava flow throughout the night and then speed it up for us. So here is a time lapse video taken on the Big Island of Hawaii for your viewing pleasure.
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Since my family is planning on taking a trip to Hawaii in a few months I was thinking about the things to see and do on the big island. Now, I’ve been there before and one of the highlights of the trip for me was going to Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park and watching the lava flow.

If you’ve never seen it in person, I highly recommend you book a trip to do so! This is one of the most awe inspiring things in nature. When the liquid hot magma reaches the surface and becomes lava it is up to 2,200 degrees (1,200 C). For the sake of comparison, the gas forge I use for Blacksmithing will get up to about that temperature and if you leave a piece of steel inside at that temperature it will literally carbonize the steel (think burn the steel to a powder).
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