...we woke up before dawn to go see the flowing lava today. To access the active lava, it is about a 45 minute drive from our house followed by a walk of about 30 minutes. We arrived at the lava at dawn. We were looking for a surface flow and it helps to see where there are red glows in the distance which indicates lava extrusion. Also, during the daytime, there are County workers who prevent anyone from getting close enough to see anything worth seeing. One has to arrive before they do.
Since the only glows we saw were farther than we wanted to walk today, we decided to see the lava flowing into the ocean from lava tubes instead. It was just great. We love lava!
As waves crashed into the flow, hot lava rocks would be shot out, as in this photo. Click on the picture to see the flying hot rock better.
Here are three short videos for those lava fiends who want more:Come visit us someday when we are here, and we will do our best to take you to an active flow.
3 comments:
Wow - gotta love that lava! The upwards video shot of the steam clouds is really cool, too. I clicked on the 3rd video, and was taken to what appears to be a photo of Robin measuring one of the family palm trees. (How tall is it?)
I will fix that... Thanks. (But what was your blog name??)
incroyable!
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