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Hawaii - Big Island - On the Volcano Rim at Night

Cheers

Yourself & Bill get to the right places @ the right time!X

August 06, 2011

Wow, look at the color

August 05, 2011

The overlapping here is so nice.

August 04, 2011

Amazing pictures and I love the journalling! Sounds like you guys had absolutely perfect timing!

August 02, 2011

Wow! What a sight and thank you for sharing it with us!

August 01, 2011

I saw this in both daytime and nightime, and it IS so different! My nightime shots didn't come out at all though. Yours look fantastic!

August 01, 2011

WOW - this is something you don't see every day. You and Bill picked the right time to visit.

August 01, 2011

Hawaii - Big Island - On the Volcano Rim at Night

Wednesday, April 13th is almost over, but not quite. After leaving the black sand beach we didn't expect much more. Little did we the show was just about to begin!

Bill said, “I know its dark so it isn't going to be exciting for you, but I would like you to see Volcano's National Park. The park entrance and military base (very small) share an entrance and I want to run to the PX and get a few things.

At the gate Bill asked, “Any volcano activity tonight?” We were told that none had been reported, in fact they didn't know of any that had happened in over a month. Disappointed to hear that report, we drove around toward the base when we spotted something glowing bright reddish orange to the left in the distance.

We picked up our purchases and asked in the store if there had been activity and they also told us that the volcano had been dormant for a while – no activity at all.

On the way back we saw the reddish orange glow again and knew there was nothing it could be other than the volcano coming back to life! We followed the road around to a place to park the car and then stumbled in the dark to a low fence around the rim of the crater and were amazed! If I had to pick the single most spectacular site I have ever seen in my life – this was it!

All this reddish-orange steam shooting to the air! It looked like the world's biggest bonfire! Park rangers were telling people if it start spewing we were in the path and we would have to evacuate immediately!

We found our way back in the darkto the car and drove to the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory where there is parking and an area for viewing. The closest you can get to the crater, actually on the rim of it. A few other people had also followed the glow and were set up with the most technical of professional camera equipment I had ever seen!

We stood there amazed in silence as we watched the show. I was not able to take my eyes off of it, not even for a second.

We could feel the ground rumble and hear the hissing of the steam and smell the sulphur. By the time we left there were about 50 people were watching in silence.

OPPOSITE PAGE:
Thursday, April 14, 2011 – As soon as we woke up I checked the computer to get a report on the volcanic activity we saw the night before. It was all pretty scientific and not particularly interesting until I got to the last paragraph: HAZARD SUMMARY!

We immediately went back to the same place we had been the night before for daytime pictures. The colors were more spectacular the night before, but still, it was awesome!