How we wish for stability...but...might get bored. That balancing act of growth, change, or stagnation. The eternal rollercoaster. On this chillcold (63dF at 930a) light rainy morning here on the heights... breezy tradebreezes push fogs, mists, and drizzles to Kaluapele. Bring jacket and hot beverages. Then a kīpuka of bluesky and teasing sunshine...change.
The succinct summary...No answers for the future, but good observations. Pelehonuamea has always been and shall always remain inscrutable. The work of science is, I think, to attain a degree of scrutableness to otherwise mysterious phenomena. Because, as asked by every child Iʻve known: "Why?". We all want to know The Answer(s). But if we did, then what? More questions, more wondering, more curiosities; all of which are excellent.
The K1 webcam in the still-standing HVO tower...a bank of white fogcloud at the left, and bluefume at the right... Wispy fume typically indicates low pele activity, as corroborated by other webcams.
First below 3a 123020...a closeup of West Vents. You can make out standing spatter cones, and a small burst of "strombolian" activity. Like those bursts from Roman Candle fireworks? kinda like that. Intermittent, rather than continuous as in a lava fountain.
At the bottom of the image, looks like two vents and a lakeshore spigot in the same West complex.
Above a closeup of West Vents. The one on the left looks like a forno or horno...a stone, wood-fired oven. The slope down is crusted over, and one outlet feeds the lake. Incandescent zigzags are where lakecurrents tear the crust apart.
We can find forno, Portuguese stone ovens, scattered about Hawaiʻi nei. This one was in use at Carvalho Park in Hilo on December 12, supervised by a longtime family friend and two of her daughters. Passing on knowledge is really important. How do you...??? Bake bread, make malasadas, make nishime (see below)...
And the pao doce (panduce as said locally), the sweetbread is a bit smoky, and crumbly; different than the squishy Kingʻs "Hawaiian" Bread I wrote about not long ago. Hot-from-the-oven, a LOT of butter...YES!!! Kona Historical Society in Kalukalu makes and sells rolls in their forno. And thereʻs a puating looking one stranded in the parking lot across Hilo Hospital. And one behind the Lyman House, by the museum, also in Hilo.
And below, the moku lana au, the drifting island, approaches the spigot at the edge of the lake.
I searched Papakilo, the database full of nā mea Hawaiʻi info, and found only three references to lokopele, what I gather is a lava lake. Surprised that there werenʻt more, but perhaps folks didnʻt think it necessary to point out that Her work resulted in, or was in, a loko (lake).
And an extremely cool thing above... looks like Ka pae ʻāina Hawaiʻi (The archipelago of Hawaiʻi)! And as is often seen along leeward Hawaiʻi, varied patches of orange...every body sing: "Kona, i ke kai, i ke kai māʻokiʻoki (Kona of the streaked sea...).
Moku o Keawe, or Hawaiʻi Kuauli, or the Island of Hawaiʻi, of course is the nui-est, and, as in the mode of plate tectonics, drifts... I am often amazed at what we get to admire, and how familiar things are made new or refreshed again.
And so...Yesterday I made a giant pot of nishime, that ono Japanese stew, for New Years. Every year I make, and the 2018 batch was blogged:
So. Go eat! No drink too much...Be well... And pray for an excellent 2021!!!
As always, with aloha...
BobbyC
maniniowali@gmail.com
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