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Haleakalā
New Eruption
Eruption Crowd
Photographing the Eruption
In the News
My Facebook post describing a last moment mission to the volcano caught the attention of one of our local reporters. Result? An interview and a little piece about volcano viewing carried on several of the local media outlets. Nothing serious, they are just trying to capture the event of the moment and the local response. Perhaps something positive in the face of all the tragic fallout from the Lahaina disaster that fills the local news. Not my first time in the news, but the first time in a while, it is always fun…
The First Few Hours
Watching the recent and repeated eruptions in the Kilauea caldera has made an interesting bit of info clear… The first few hours are the most spectacular.
Months of inflation Kilauea had stored large quanities of gas and built up a considerable amount of pressure, enough pressure to lift the megatons of rock above the magma chamber and cause the entire summit region to swell outwards.
Beween eruptions USGS geologists and armchair vulcanologists like myself keep an eye on the tiltmeters as the pressure in the volcano builds, awaiting the time that accumulating magma and increased pressure bursts through the overlying rock to begin a new eruptive cycle.
At 15:13 HST Sunday afternoon that moment came.
Continue reading “The First Few Hours”Rainbow Falls
2022 in Photos
With recent history having been a bit bumpy, looking back on 2022 is not too bad in out little part of the world. More than a few good memories.
Kailua Bay on a typical Saturday Morning 
PBR’s with Asparagopsis taxiformis 
Harvesting algae from the PBR’s at Symbrosia 
A raceway pond full of Asparagopsis taxiformis at Symbrosia 
Waimea Canyon 
Kīlauea lighthouse 
Kōloa sugar mill 
An air compressor rusts in the abandoned Kōloa sugar mill 
Sunset over Lawaʻi Beach 
The quintessential Alaskan charter boat anchored to fish halibut in Yakutat Bay 
Ben halibut fishing in Yakutat Bay 
A nice king salmon from Yakutat Bay 
Icebergs on Harlequin Lake 
A six inch gun emplacement from World War II at Cannon Beach, Yakutat 
Total lunar eclipse on Nov 8th, 2022 
Fred and Andrew Cooper at the earth’s equator along the Masaka Road, Uganda 
A street in Masaka, Uganda 
Line for the ferry at Nakiwogo, Uganda 
Kids come to see what we are doing at the fishing village of Kazinga, Uganda 
An older male lion (Panthera leo) 
Tour vans arrive to view a lion 
A Pied Kingfisher (Ceryle rudis) on the shoreline of Lake George, Uganda 
A Rüppells starling (Lamprotornis purpuroptera) at the lodge in Katunguru 
A Marabou Stork (Leptoptilos crumeniferus) 
An elephant visits the Kazinga Safari Lodge at Katunguru, Uganda 
A close-up of an elephant’s eye 
The Toyota Land Cruiser at Kazinga village 
The 2022 Mauna Loa eruption at dawn 
The 2022 eruption of Mauna Loa on the second day 
The 2022 eruption of Mauna Loa on the second day 
Sunset over Lawaʻi Beach
2023
As usual we rang in the new year staying quietly at home. Quietly? We may have been quiet, the neighborhood was not. I have always considered the amount of fireworks the neighborhood launches to be a rough economic indicator. Apparently this last year ws not too bad, the quantity of explosives launched over Waikoloa was impressive.
While Waikoloa was impressive, Honolulu was insane…
Our celebration? Testing a little telescope and enjoying a cup of cocoa at midnight.
With celebrations complete we shall have to see what this new year brings. There is some optimism and no complete disasters looming, which after the last few years is all I am going to ask for.