Got up early and drove fifteen miles out to the farther side of Koko Crater, where there is a great blow-hole. The waves rush into a cave and the air forms a cushion and sends them spouting through a hole about two feet across. First a fine spray goes up about sixty-five feet, and then the white water follows up about forty feet with a terrible roar, and then falls back on the lava and swashes away into the sea, twenty feet below. You can stand close to it, and look into the hole between waves—but it isn't wise to be too close when the blow comes.
There is a little wee bay there, too, called Launa Bay—all white sand and high, ragged lava walls and clear blue water and tremendous surf. There are great sea-turtles and big, bright-colored fish swimming where we could see them plainly from the rocks.
We took a little frying pan with us, and a quart cup, and built a fire and cooked eggs and bacon and made coffee. It was fun.
