| We went for a walk to the new Black Sand Beach (yellow line). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE |
| Out behind Verna's. I don't know what the occasion is. I count 13 cats. A nice lucky number! |
| Robin on the lava. You can see the ocean behind her. |
| Robin on the lava looking toward the steam plume. |
| You find the most interesting shapes and textures in the lava. Can you imagine this stuff at thousands of degrees and flowing red hot? |
| Nothing special, just a lot of lava. These are really giant bubbles that have burst. |
| Make note of this house. We see it a lot in the pictures: the green house with the red roof. It will help orient us as we go. |
| I saw a lot of this "drift wood" lying around and wondered if it was, or if it was from the lava flow days, some 6 years ago. I turned over a few of the branches and, sure enough they were charred on one side: evidence that they were here when the lava was hot. |
| This is your typical house that the locals live in: small house with a big tarp and lots of coolers to keep the fish they catch in. This house doesn't appear to have any electricity. I can see a 5 gallon propane tank for the stove, and a blue 5 gallon water jug for drinking water. |
| Another local house. Same thing: small house, big tarp, coolers. Living is very much outdoors year-round. Sleeping inside simply to keep the bugs and the rain off. |
| We went for another walk on the lava (the whole blue line this time). We walked out to the Black Sand Beach where Robin stayed to sunbathe while I went on to explore the band of trees we could see over by the shoreline. I walked on the inland (Mauka) path going out and walked on the ocean side (Makai) going back. |
| Another giant bubble that popped. Can you imagine? |
| I took this from a couple of different angles to get different lighting on it. |
| Looking inland. You can see a guy just right of center on the lava. He's walking on a converging course and we'll meet up at the tree line and chat some. |
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| Tuesday, April 11, 2006 |
A walk on the lava at Kaimu-Kalapana
| Sunday, April 16, 2006 |
Another walk on the lava at Kaimu-Kalapana
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