We just cleared security and are about to board our flight. A great trip, lots of great memories and our new friends Jack and Traci. Aloha Big Island!
A lot of lava…devastation and creation at the same time.
September 22, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Just about everywhere you drive on the Big Island of Hawaii, you see massive expanses where the lava has recently flowed (recent meaning within the last couple of thousand years or much, much newer). It doesn’t matter which mountain/volcano you look at either. The land is so new, it looks like construction crews have chewed [...]
Kiluea Iki (Little Kiluea)
September 22, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The Kiluea Iki Crater is just to the left of the main Kiluea Caldera. This massive crater is from an eruption in November 1959 that spewed fountains of lava into the air filling the expanse. The whole eruption had 17 episodes and lasted only 5 weeks. The lava lake filling its bottom is now a [...]