Craters of the Moon is a very interesting place:

The lava looks like Hawaii, but the plants are wrong:


The lava is old enough plants have established themselves:



Interesting rock colors:

Only a few days a year do the monkey flowers bloom here and we came during those days. We felt so lucky. Here are what they look like:


The weather was scary but we didn't have a problem except in the car:

Close ups of the monkey flowers:


People climbing the cinder cone, that is the specks at the top:

We went into one of the lava caves:



Craters of the Moon was fun.