Photos 4, page 25
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Lava @ Royal Gardens
| February 28, 2008 |
| So this morning I got up and, after checking my e-mail as usual, I checked the Kilauea update page for 2/28, as usual. It said that the lava flow had reached the bottom of Royal Gardens! This was rather sudden as you can see from previous entries here, I'd been hiking around that area a couple of times recently and had not been able to reach the lava flows. Now, apparently, they had come to me! I immediately hopped in the car and raced over there to see if it was home and got my stuff together and drove as fast as I could back to the end of the road, stuffing trail mix in my mouth to get some energy into me. After parking the car, I strode off toward the smoking, burning hillside, still getting dressed (green line). It was about a 2 mile hike and about halfway there the adrenaline started to fade and I had to stop and take a break and get my equipment packed properly. Then I set out at a more measured pace... |
| This is a view of the location with an overly of the map for 2/28 from the Kilauea update page. The pink areas are from earlier lava flows, the red areas are where the lava has flowed in the last few days. |
| This is a picture from 2/17 |
| 10:46:52 AM |
| 11:55:19 AM For scale, you can just barely see a guy in an orange shirt in the center of the photograph, just below the ridge of lava running across. |
| 11:55:31 AM Zoomed |
| 12:18:14 PM Getting closer, you can see a couple of people over on the right side |
| Over on the left, that orange spot is lava, not the guy in the orange shirt! |
| That dark black stuff coming down the hill is the new lava flow - an A'a flow - the clinkery stuff, not the smooth stuff. You can see people standing there on the left at the end of the flow. |
| This is an image from 7/16/06 when Robin and I hiked out to Royal Gardens for the first time. It gives the names of the streets in Royal Gardens which apparently aren't available in the newer images. Royal Avenue, where the lava's coming down is the vertical one that connects to the ghost of Chain of Craters Road. King Ave. is the street to the right of Royal Ave. As in the other images, the black areas are covered in lava flows, the green areas are vegetated. |
| 1:09:35 PM At the base of King Ave. |
| 1:19:35 PM At the intersection of Orchid and King |
| 1:17:28 PM Looking south down King Ave. from whence I came |
| 1:19:40 PM Looking west along Orchid St. |
| 10:46:19 AM |
| 12:36:24 PM |
| 12:36:40 PM |
| 12:43:41 PM |
| 12:52:29 PM |
| 12:57:07 PM |
| 1:06:33 PM |
| 1:06:40 PM |
| 1:08:57 PM |
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