Hawaii - The Big Island
Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 12:49 pm
Returned recently from spending little over a week on the Big Island of Hawaii . An awesome trip (aside from the airline cancelling our flight home - any guesses on which airline? ), we snorkelled one night with four large Manta Rays , and spent several days exploring Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. The plume of gas coming out of Kilauea was beyond amazing, and watching the lava ooz into the ocean, again, beyond amazing. But the gas from Kilauea was so intense that much of the island was shrouded in 'vog', so its a little funny that I came away from Hawaii with hundreds of pictures, only a small few of the ocean or beach because of the vog.
A few pics:
Moonlight and lava/superheated gas illuminating the gas plume from the Halema'uma'u Crater Vent on Kilauea. The gas coming out of the vent was literally pulsating, and at time could be heard - for scale, the diamter of the vent spewing the gas is 100ft
That same gas plume in the morning, taken near the porch of our hotel
Lava oozing into the ocean near Halapana Gardens...I'll be the first to comment on the poor quality of this image - but the heat waves between myself and the lava made it almost impossible to get a sharp image.
Gecko near our Hotel in Kona
[url=hhttp://www.naturefocused.com/photography/hawaii/gecko.html][/url]
Perhaps more soon
A few pics:
Moonlight and lava/superheated gas illuminating the gas plume from the Halema'uma'u Crater Vent on Kilauea. The gas coming out of the vent was literally pulsating, and at time could be heard - for scale, the diamter of the vent spewing the gas is 100ft
That same gas plume in the morning, taken near the porch of our hotel
Lava oozing into the ocean near Halapana Gardens...I'll be the first to comment on the poor quality of this image - but the heat waves between myself and the lava made it almost impossible to get a sharp image.
Gecko near our Hotel in Kona
[url=hhttp://www.naturefocused.com/photography/hawaii/gecko.html][/url]
Perhaps more soon