The Power Five => Big Ten => Topic started by: Cincydawg on May 20, 2018, 09:51:23 AM
Title: Hawaii and Volcanoes
Post by: Cincydawg on May 20, 2018, 09:51:23 AM
This is interesting to me because I've visited the Big Island pretty often, probably more than ten times. We usually spend a day driving down to Volcano NP and on one occasion we had access to a current lava flow and could get quite close, well, inside 6 feet it started to get really hot.
Our last trip we stayed 2 nights on the Hilo side of the island fairly near the current activity zone. At some point some developer laid out quite a few grids for residential development much of which never happened, but some did. You can see those grids laid out over square miles with nary a house in some places, and in others there are sporadic houses. All of this is in the "zone" on the side of Kilauea, which has been erupting since 1984 continuously at one spot or another. The lava flow had been restricted to a vent on the side of the mountain called "Pu'u", and you can't get there by foot, or shouldn't anyway even then. We climbed one "dead" vent about 5 miles away and could see Pu'u erupting, and we've taken helo tours to see the vents.
Anyway, the island is roughly 100 miles by 100 miles, so most of the island is unaffected except for some "vog" in the air. The Kona side is fine to visit, and is where we usually stay. Folks living southwest of Hilo are in the impacted area right not, but this could get worse of course and affect Hilo itself. You might wonder why anyone would live there on the side of an active volcano, but I think humans see all the trees and whatnot and figure things will remain calm, so they build on cheaper land and enjoy the climate (which can be pretty rainy around Hilo).
The crater inside the main crater in the national park has been venting SO2 for years now and the road that went around the crater has been closed for years, we drove it last in about 2008. And the crater inside that crater has been venting and has active lava at its surface which you can't see from the area you are allowed to visit (the whole thing is closed now).
Anyway, it's a neat place to visit and relax, a lot less touristy than Oahu with cattle farms and regular people, and with ever changing volcanoes.
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Post by: MarqHusker on May 20, 2018, 11:03:35 AM
I managed to dig up the pictures from our family trip to the Big Island in 1982. Those places are seared into my head.
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Post by: OrangeAfroMan on May 20, 2018, 07:24:53 PM
Thread title should read "Hawai'i, the Volcanoes"
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Post by: FearlessF on May 20, 2018, 07:51:22 PM
yuo, change the name
if my daughters and go back, it will be too the big island
been to waikiki and maui
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Post by: 847badgerfan on May 21, 2018, 08:00:56 AM
Kauai is my favorite. It's the oldest of the islands. Nothing active as far as volcanos go.
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Post by: FearlessF on May 21, 2018, 11:01:45 AM
I'm guessing all the islands are pretty old
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Post by: 847badgerfan on May 21, 2018, 11:03:11 AM
The big one is the newest one.
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Post by: FearlessF on May 21, 2018, 11:06:05 AM
only a century or two old?
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Post by: 847badgerfan on May 21, 2018, 11:20:20 AM
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Post by: Cincydawg on May 22, 2018, 12:02:47 PM
Those golfers are quite a way away, see telephoto distance compression.
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Post by: FearlessF on May 22, 2018, 12:05:14 PM
yup, you have to know "someone" to get very close.
looks like the folks in the background have come to the golf course to take pics. Maybe as close as they are allowed from this angle. Or maybe they are simply golfers taking a break and a few pics while there.