Photos 4, page 2
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Kilauea Panorama
| June 3, 2007 |
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| I've always been frustrated by the fact that to get a good picture of the Kilauea Caldera, it took 4 pictures. I discovered I had a program that stitched photos together to form a panorama. This is what resulted... |
Mauna Kea
| June 5, 2007 |
| A clear day and Mauna Kea was out. <--This was taken from the road somewhere between Pahoa and Keaau as I head into Hilo. This was taken from the Wal-Mart parking lot in Hilo.--> |
Steam Plumes
| June 14, 2007 |
| March 20, 2006 East Lae'apuki entry |
| June 2, 2006 East Lae'apuki entry |
| October 9, 2006 East Lae'apuki & East Ka'ili'ili entries |
| June 14, 2007 Poupou entry |
| A comparison of how the ocean entries have moved around since we've been here. Use the green house with the red roof on the horizon or the clump of trees on the right for reference |
More Lava
| June 16, 2007 |
| Keeping with my notion to keep hiking out and checking the lava flows, I headed out again. I started out heading for the Poupou steam plume but changed my mind and went toward the bottom of Royal Gardens, at the bottom of the hill. This was where the reports said the lava was going from so I'd decided to start "upstream" then head down. I encountered hot surface lava in the upper area where the former streets of Royal Gardens (white straight lines) are covered by the lava. I then worked my way downstream to the ocean. After I left the first area, there was no indication whatsoever of any lava in the area until I got to "Warm", then "Smoke", then "Hot Hot", "Hot", and "Hot". It was, obviously very hot in this area and I could look down through cracks and see the lava right below me. It was a little scary there for a while until I managed to get out of that area and continue on down to the coast. |
| This is the parking area where all the hikes begin. When I first started coming out here last year, there were hardly ever any cars here. The other night when I got back, I counted 25 cars. It's really gotten popular and there are people all over the place like tiny little brightly-colored ants in the black lava field. |
| In a beam of sunlight through a break in the clouds, you can see the shiny new lava and smoke coming from the hillside where the lava is flowing down. |
| Can you imagine what kind of forces would be involved to create a formation like this? I would guess that the top of it is about 20 feet high... |
| Live lava, oozing along... |
| MOVIE (31.3 MB) Click image to download |
| I stuck my foot there so you can have some sense of scale, but it doesn't give you the depth very well. I would guess that's about a foot deep... |
| It finally got so hot around here, I had to get out. I discovered that there was a delayed reaction where I would feel the heat through my boots well after I got out of the area! |
| Looking back... |
| This, as you might guess, is the area marked "Smoke". |
| Interestingly, it wasn't hot here |
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