Lotsa Lava by beachzz
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This is part of the huge lava beds on the Big Island of Hawaii. An entire subdivision was destroyed when Madame Pele blew her top many years ago. My friend and I walked along here and I saw the top of street signs sticking above the surface. Those palms trees are all that's left of a once gorgeous tropical area. Between Mother Nature and Madame Pele, we humans don't stand a chance!! BTW, it was Kilauea that erupted causing all this damge.
*Kilauea is the youngest and most active Hawaiian shield volcano, located on the southern part of the Island of Hawai'i, known as Big Island. Hawai'i is the southernmost and largest of the island chain, which owes its existence to the very active Hawaiian hot spot.
Kilauea volcano is near-constantly erupting from vents either on its summit (caldera) or on the rift zones. At present, Kilauea volcano is still having one of the most long-lived eruptions known on earth, which started in 1983 on the eastern rift zone and has mainly been concentrated at the Pu'u 'O'o vent.
*from VolcanoDiscovery.com
Comments (12)
wysiwig
If you don't look too closely you could almost believe they are walking on water. On this site Sharkey and Punaguy once took close up pictures of Kilauea erupting.
Faemike55
rock on! takes on a whole new meaning!
wonderful capture and description
giulband
Marvelous picture, very well taken and explicative of the hawaian lava strong !!
blinkings
Amazing.
durleybeachbum
Gosh, what an adventure!
SunriseGirl
How impressive!
jocko500
cool
MrsRatbag
Raw power; geology isn't just something that happened "in the distant past", it's happening now. Wonderful shot!
netot
Impressive! We have many volcanoes here, but are generally quiet, even though most are considered still active. The last major eruption was from the 60's in the volcano of Izalco
goodoleboy
Mucho fine foto. Definite striations revealed in this post Pele eruption scene of the lava, Maz.
0rest4wicked
Minus the ocean this reminds me of "Craters f the moon" National Monument in Idaho.
Aloha
sharky_
On one of my hikes in March 2012 to the lava field was from this very spot. Security was getting complicated from the other side at Kalapana. When we arrived approx 1 am in the morning, we met this Japanese visitor just barely making it out of the lava field... He was equipped with Cameras, cell phone, gps, 2 way radio's and other electronics to find his way out. In that area, the only thing worked was his camera. He was lost... More so, he just didn't have enough water... He was glad to see us... He said never no more he would hike alone... He made it out ok.... Aloha