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Hualalai GC
creating rock hazards and rugged lava
walls. The lava walls completely encompass
one hole: the gorgeous par-3 17th,
which plays right up to the ocean's edge
and into the teeth of the trade winds.
While lava rock is a common course
feature on the island of Hawaii, only one
course can claim to be built on the slope
of a volcano-Volcano Golf & Country
Club is on an active volcano that is bubbling
red-hot lava and sulfuric steam
just 10 miles away from the fi rst tee. My
family was scheduled to play Volcano
G & CC for the unique experience it
provides, but we were rained out. The
course is on the wayward side of the island,
where spring rains are frequent in
this tropical rain-forested area.
The course actually plays up the slope
of Kilauea (which includes an active volcanic
crater in the Kilauea caldera) and
is covered in lush green grass some 4,200
feet above sea level. The only course inhabitants
on our scheduled day were the
plentiful Nene birds (the protected state
bird of Hawaii), who know that when
the rains come to Volcano G & CC, the
golfers do not-and one Nene showed
our nosy family photographer who was
boss of the moss by chasing her away.
Rather than drive to Hilo to visit another
rain-soaked golf course (Hilo Municipal
Golf Club), we retreated instead
to Kilauea and watched this changing
island in action. Fuming smoke plumes
by day and an orange-red glow by night,
Kilauea offers a unique look into how
the island was and is being formed. It
created a great family excursion away
from golf, which is really what vacationing
in Hawaii is all about.
Visiting the active volcano takes a visitor
back to the origins of Hawaii, a place
that is ever-evolving. Right now, another
submarine volcano, called Lo'ihi
seamount, is forming a new addition to
the Hawaiian archipelago just off the Big
Island's southeast coast. Who knows, in
another millennium, someone could be
writing about the newest Hawaii golf resorts
on the leeward coast of the " Little
Island. " MG
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