Kīlauea Update #2, SUN, May 20, 2018, Canʻt help myself

I know, I know...  But I could sit and screenshot Halemaʻumaʻu all day...

From the KIcam in the tower at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory at 1009a today:

KIcam at HVO

and from a camera, thankfully still operating, at Volcano House at 1000 today:

Volcano House cam

No can help.  She mesmerizes...


And then, because old maps, geography, etc., are among my passions, this from the State Survey Office.  The link:

State Survey Office archival maps

A portion of a map of the Island of Hawaiʻi, by Alexander and Wall, Surveyors for the Territory of Hawaiʻi, Registered Map 2124, drawn in 1901:

This shows ahupuaʻa (land division) boundaries, and their names, some of which should be familiar by now.

Note that todays "Malama-Ki Forest Reserve", is comprised of portions of Malama 1, Malama 2, and Ki.  The FR is where Pele traveled to reach the sea.

The most recent flow in 1901 was the 1840 that went through Nanawale and made the "Sand Hills" on the shore.  They are littoral (at the shore) cones, and are piles of shattered exploded lava sand created as the ʻaʻā flow dropped over low cliffs there into the ocean.

Mostly clear at Kaluapele, showery at Kawaiapapane, my hale.

As always,

BobbyC