The smoking Pali (cliffs) from last Monday’s lava tour.
Sunset from the east rift zone of the volcano park.
Lava at ocean entry near Royal Gardens
East Rift Zone, Puna, HI
GPOYW - Magmatic edition
-Red hot earth juice
-Orange death taffy
-Raw island
-Exposed plate lubricant
-Hot mountain pimple pus
-Planety crust blood
-King Koopa’s moat filler
-Land batter
-Basalty lemonade
-Pele’s ejaculate
or
“Oh look, honey. The new acreage has heated floors!”
Yesterday we felt a 4.7 magnitude earthquake in the jungle that, according to the USGS website, originated about 6 miles directly south of the treehouse near Kilauea Volcano’s Pu’u O’o vent.
In Hawaii we have two kinds of earthquakes: Volcanic, which are caused by magmatic movements inside the volcanoes, and Techtonic, which originate from areas of structural weakness at the base of the volcanoes or deep within the earth’s crust.
Volcanic earthquakes are the most common and a relatively large one like we felt yesterday is often an indicator of upcoming volcanic activity. Nothing new on the USGS webcams yet, but I’m keeping my eyes peeled. Last spring Pu’u O’o went off like crazy and every night from the treehouse roof a bright red glow could be seen on the horizon.
New lava near the ocean entry in the volcano park, day and nght.
Hanging out eating dinner around this is like being around the campfire but way more bad ass.
One can toss in a penny and watch it burst into flames when it hits the heat.
Week-old lava.
So I have a new job taking people to see stuff like this. Gettin paid to flap the yapper about Hawaiian geology and walk 9 miles in order to witness new earth being born.
This is from last Thursday’s trip.
Lava tour’d it up today. 9 miles walking over pahoehoe to see some glowing earth juice. Life is grand.
