Like the setting sun, the rising sun specializes nature. Plan to include it. Approaching the cave, one is quite surpirsed by the enormity of the entrance. But I was surprised. Passing the amphitheater and into the cave, one encounters a series of switchbacks that will take the hiker down to the 800 foot, main floor of the cave.
Wonders begin almost immediately.
One can immediately see and feel that the cave is a product of joints, seeping calcium and bicarbonates, flooding, quakes, erosion etc. The natural sunlight fades as you hike deeper into the cave. The natural light is replaced by strategically place electric lamps. A sign does tell me to hold on to the hand rails and not to slip over the rails as many drops are a fatal distance. Being one who considers the Hawaii Loa hike an exciting one, I heed the warning.