Yay, made it to Kilauea! The most active volcano in the world 😃 It's been erupting from its east rift zone since 1983 - that's before I started work! Tomorrow I'll be moving to stay near where the current lava flow enters the sea ... I'm hoping that will be the most amazing location, for the night sky too.
Today I went along the north section of the crater rim drive - the west and south sections are closed because of the gases drifting over from the crater.
It's impossible to get a pic of the whole caldera because it's so large, and what I hadn't realised is that the caldera the road circumnavigates is an inner caldera contained in a much larger (about x3) outer caldera which I was already inside!もっと詳しく
旅行者Now that might look insignificant but it's a tiny thin thread of volcanic glass known as Pele's Hair, Pele being the Hawaiian goddess of the volcanoes and creator of the Hawaiian islands. I overheard a tour guide finding some in a scrubby bit of land at Steaming Bluff so had a hunt around after they'd gone. The tiny strands glint in the light if you look carefully, then snap like ... glass. I'm mighty chuffed with myself! 😎
旅行者There's steam rising all over the place at Steaming Bluff, with a couple of vents right by the parking. Obviously I had to stand in it ... hot, wet (of course) and sulphurous - fab.
旅行者The western end of Kilauea caldera and Halema'uma'u Crater - really breathtaking. The crater is captivating because there's stuff happening, but it's so much more mind-boggling and interesting to look at the whole (inner!) caldera
旅行者 Now that might look insignificant but it's a tiny thin thread of volcanic glass known as Pele's Hair, Pele being the Hawaiian goddess of the volcanoes and creator of the Hawaiian islands. I overheard a tour guide finding some in a scrubby bit of land at Steaming Bluff so had a hunt around after they'd gone. The tiny strands glint in the light if you look carefully, then snap like ... glass. I'm mighty chuffed with myself! 😎
旅行者 There's steam rising all over the place at Steaming Bluff, with a couple of vents right by the parking. Obviously I had to stand in it ... hot, wet (of course) and sulphurous - fab.
旅行者 The western end of Kilauea caldera and Halema'uma'u Crater - really breathtaking. The crater is captivating because there's stuff happening, but it's so much more mind-boggling and interesting to look at the whole (inner!) caldera