Kapoho, Hawaii

The natural tide pools, black sand beach, and warm hot springs transformed Kapoho into an attractive spot to live and for tourists to visit.

[3] The 2018 lower Puna eruption interrupted electric power to Kapoho in late May[5] and closed the main road to the rest of the island.

[8] On June 2, 2018, the Green Lake (Ka Wai o Pele) was destroyed when lava flows boiled it away and completely filled the entire basin.

Hawaiʻi County officials indicated that hundreds of homes in the subdivisions of Vacationland Hawaii and Kapoho Beach Lots were destroyed by the rapidly advancing lava flow.

[18][19] Over the next few days, the entirety of the bay was filled in with lava,[20] and on June 6, Hawaii County Civil Defense reported that the few homes remaining in Vacationland had been wiped out.

Cemetery in Kapoho
There were many snorkeling possibilities at the interconnected tidal pools of Kapoho.
On June 4, 2018, the channel of lava from a fissure ten miles (16 km) inland (from upper right) cuts through the homes of Vacationland and Kapoho Beach Lots, and begins to fill in the tide pools and Kapoho Bay. [ 4 ]