August it is 
Maybe we would hire a bootleg boat to take us out of the Kalalau Valley after a night or 2 and then skip over to the big island for a bootleg photo trip to the bleeding edge of an erupting volcano.
The problem with the volcano is that it’s impossible to plan far out. When I went last year, there hadn’t been an ocean entry in over a year. For months beforehand, I checked the daily reports for updates. As the trip came closer, the lava started breaking out, then slowly, excruciatingly, started to make its way to the ocean. Every day the flow would be a few feet closer. By the time I was two weeks out, the flow was about 200 feet from the ocean, and it looked like I’ll make it. But at the end, the flow did not only stop moving forward, it more or less stopped. And of course a week after I got home the flow finally hit the ocean L. Even now, some 8 months later, it’s fairly sporadic.
My point is that that until literally days before, you may bit even be sure of an ocean entry. Of course if the flow had been extremely strong for a while before it’ll probably still be there, but it still can’t be counted on 100%.
Of course there’s still the crater and lava lake, but these are not nearly as interesting or awesome
