Entries tagged 'volcanoes'
Hawaii Volcanoes Lava Poke - Don't Try This At Home
Very cool video. You actually can that close to the stuff at HAVO coming out of Kilauea. All that said, you better be careful and make sure you are going only when the rangers say A-OK....
Reason Number 6 To Come to Hawaii: The Air is Cleaner?
Money Mag sez Hawaii has six of the 25 cleanest air towns around, way out of proportion for such a small state. Mililani, Waipahu, Pearl City, Waimalu, Honolulu and Kaneohe logged rankings 20 through 25 on the clean list thanks...
Hawaii Don't Try This On Vacation Trick: Surfing Near Lava Floes
C.J. Kanuha surfing in the hot zone. Not sure of the swell direction. Does it matter? Pray to Pele....
Poison Gas Webcam Hawaii; Volcano Forces Evacuation of Idyllic Village
Kilauea Volcano has gone from tourist attraction to major hazard. While the shield volcano has been erupting for decades, that eruption recently changed form to create voluminous noxious sulfur gas, explosions and hot plumes of smoke. All this is happening...
Hawaii Volcano: Kailauea Eruption -- Spectacular Aerial Show
After a hiatus of several months due to shifting lava flows resulting from seismic activity, Madame Pele has resumed her red hot show. Word out of the Big Island is that lava viewing from helicopters is the best seen in...
Hawaii Volcano Update: No Lava Visible
According to the latest update from Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, the temblor-caused interruption in the lava flow from Kilauea on the Big Island remains in effect as there is currently no lava visible from any place within easy striking distance...
Hawaii Beache Guides: Big island Gem, Black Sand Beach in Punalu'u
">The southern shore of the Big Island is not known for its beaches. The landscape is rugged with the remnants of recent volcanic eruptions. The shoreline tends to be rocky in most places. Then there’s Punalu'u Beach Park, an idyllic...
Hawaii Travel: Volcano Update - No Lava Yet
After a spate of quakes shook the summit area of Kilauea a few weeks ago, Pele's lava taps turned off. Fearing geological instability, the National Park Service closed down a bunch of the hiking trails including the Napau Trail and...
Hawaii Volcano Update: HAVO Rangers Reopen Chain of Craters Road
After a spate of small temblors and some lava flow shifts that left vulcanologists chasing the orange stuff and generally scratching their heads as to what would happen next, the good folks at HAVO have reopened the solitary traffic artery...
Quakes Close Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
Hundreds of small temblors set Kilauea Volcano all aquiver and scared the National Park Service enough to shutter Hawaii Volcanoes National Park to visitors. Rangers evacuated a handful of campers and turned away dozens of carloads of tourists. What will...
Hawaii Adventures: Spelunking Supreme - Kazumura Cavern
Cheryl Tsutsumi, who has covered the islands for years, writes a piece in this Sunday's Star-Bulletin about tours of the Kazamura Lava Tube, the longest lava tube...
Lava Flow Update: PeleTurns Off the Spigot
Madame Pele doesn't really stick to a schedule or an itinerary. The Volcano Goddess of Hawaiian myths and legends is capricious and hard to predict. Which may explain why you really can't plan ahead for volcano watching trips. The Kilauea...
Hawaii Foodie: Honey Wine from the Volcano
Over the past decade, dessert wines have gone from gimmick to mainstream, complete with a big section at your local liquor store. Fruit wines, likewise, have become less than a novelty, in part due to the big success of Bonny...
Hikes to Die For: The Three Most Brutal Hikes in Hawaii
Some people come to Hawaii to lie on the beach and drink Mai Tais. Others feel the need for extreme physical exertion on their vacations. I can be prone to that tendency, sadly enough, and can relate. The only...
Room at the Inn: Excellent B&B / Booking Site
A reader sent in a question asking me about good bed and breakfast reccomendations. She said that its an area which is difficult for visitors because the quality varies so much and there are so many listed on the...
Kilauea Night Hike: Part 4
Read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 of this serial article. Rather than pour freely, the lava oozes along like an amoeba growing in many different directions, like an enormous lava blob. Small breakout pools of shimmering pahoehoe...
Kilauea Night Hike: Part 3
Read Part 1 and Part 2 of this serial article. Kaye, who specializes in building maps and collecting data using images snapped by satellites, has spent his time at the Observatory helping scientists draw some of the most accurate...
Kilauea Night Hike: Part 2
(Read part 1) On this evening, the flows have moved within a mile of the end of the road, and hundreds of people are trekking to see them. We see old folks walking carefully over the lava and dads...
Kilauea Night Hike: Part 1
A bipolar world of dark lava fields and green, dense forests unfolds along the serpentine Chain of Craters Road in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on Hawaii Island. On this evening, Grant Kaye, a geologist near the end of a...
