The Boys' Two Day Field Trip

Last weekend, we went on a two-day field trip with 36 kids ages 6-16 from our Foundations School on the YWAM base. We drove in three vans south to Black Sands Beach, where we saw five turtles. (Here’s a turtle picture that Daddy took on his camera a few days later.) The sand was pure black!! It was not a good swimming beach, but we looked at several tide pools. We saw all the colors that sea urchins can be.

From there, we went to our campsite that was at Volcano National Park. Before going to sleep, we drove as close as we could to the new lava flow on Mt. Kileaua, but could only see a red glow as it was down in a crater about a third of a mile away. We were going to go to the lava tubes for a hike a bit earlier, but just as we were ready to go, there was a huge rainstorm with flash floods! So, the teachers said we couldn’t go hike in the lava tubes.

We spent the night there in a kind of dorm (military base), and then got up the next morning to go to Hilo. In Hilo, we went to the zoo, where a Squirrel Monkey had escaped! I (Evan) took pictures of the other Squirrel Monkeys so you can see what they look like. We were told they were vicious and they do bite. Also at this zoo, they had a giant white tiger, a giant ant eater, and a butterfly exhibit, but all the butterflies had also escaped! (We noticed a rip in the screen of the butterfly exhibit. This zoo is way smaller than the one in Portland!) We did see several tropical birds, like a Toucan!

Finally, we headed back home across the island, and stopped at McDonald’s for lunch. (McD’s is much more of a treat now that we eat dorm food every day on campus.) We ordered Oreo cookie Mcflurries, which we loved! While we were going home from McDonald’s, we were at a stoplight and we noticed that a nearby parking lot was completely flooded! (Jo Jo really wanted you all to know that part.) I (Evan) took a few pictures of my friends being goofy in the van (that's Abraham Kim sleeping on a thing of chips) and also took pictures of a waterfall we saw when we stopped at a look-out view on the way home. We had a fun time on our two-day field trip!