On saturday I went on a pre dawn/sunrise hike to the lava with Debbie and Ron. Debbie is Becky's sister, who was visiting for a week and helping out at the store and Ron is this return WWOOFer guy that has been here the past 4 winters and in the summer he lives and climbs rocks in Yosemite. Perhaps I'll reflect upon them further, but for now I'm going to try and sum up the last few days...
The lava stopped flowing into the ocean just after thanksgiving and then it pooled for a couple of weeks up the hill, and in the last week it has been moving downhill again towards the ocean and it's been taking forest as it goes. It's been pretty cool at night, you can see the red glow reflected on the clouds over in the distance...Here are some really cool lava pictures, and yes Ma these were just taken with my cell phone.
It was really cool hiking out when it was still dark and then coming back with the early morning light. This was one of the first breakouts I saw…
You can kind of see the horizon in this one; the lava was moving so fast, it was incredible.
This is of a chunk of molten rock falling off into more lava. So cool.
This was the largest and longest breakout that we saw, and it was magnificent. It got lighter and lighter around us and then the scenery emerged and the coasline was way closer then I thought.
Probably since I’ve been seeing so much art about this, but this breakout really looked like the bust of a woman with long braided hair. I think it was Pele that I saw and she did look so beautiful in the morning.
Lava is so indescribable, like I really could never have imagined what it actually is like to be so close to the searing hot rock. Just the thought of how hot it is and then it comes from deep in the earth is incredible, but when your body gets warm and you have to blink a lot to keep your eyeballs cool, you can feel the force of energy that this earth is capable of. Incredible.
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