Arose to cloud cover, but by 9ish, cumulus puffs gave way to bluesky. Breezes are wafting, and somewhere in forest understory kalij lurk, waiting to wreak havoc. Damn things...
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This pheasant, named after a village in Iran, and found along the Himalaya foothills according to Wikipedia, was introduced to Hawaiʻi as a gamebird in 1962. A male is pictured above. Females are tanbrown. They range far and wide here, mainly at higher elevations. And they forage, picking and snipping whatever strikes their fancy. Iʻm upset because yesterday they feasted on JUST transplanted kalo: Maniniʻōwali, named for narrow black stripes on the hā...
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likened to stripes on manini, an ʻono reef fish,
Manini are associated by legend with the ahupuaʻa Maniniʻōwali, in the coastal region Kekahawaiʻole, in Kona ʻAkau (North Kona), Island of Hawaiʻi, wherein lies turquoise-watered and white-sanded Kua Bay, once my all time, hands down favorite haunt. Then they made a road, and eventually the hordes showed up.
in Place Names of Hawaiʻi:
Land section, Ke-āhole and Pua-kō qds.; undersea spring and rock between Awa-keʻe and Kū-kiʻo, Hawaiʻi. A girl named Manini-ʻōwali was betrothed as a child to Ulu-weuweu because their parents were close friends. When the wedding day approached the boy became ill. A kahuna made the diagnosis that he was in love with someone else. The kahuna prayed for the girl, but the gods turned both young people into rocks that can be seen at low tide. Lit., weak manini fish.
Ahhh the wandering mind...So. Kalij nailed the kalo.
Meantime, at Kaluapele, She splashes about. An HVO photo captured at a perfect moment. Reddish pasty spatter from vent to lake surface builds levees, spatter cones, and feeds the slowly deepening loko ahi.
Up ma uka, along the Mauna Loa Strip Road, if weʻre lucky and clouds and winds allow... Just to the left of the sticking up ʻōhiʻa, a bank of whitish mistfog advances. While rising from Halemaʻumaʻu, a plume of bluish, noxious uahi ʻawa is tradewind-carried to the Southwest.
In the region close to the location of this webcam was fought a famous battle, "Ke Kaua ʻo Kauaʻawa", "The Battle of the Bitter Rain". The Ulukau.org website has both ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi and English versions of "Kamehameha and His Warrior Kekūhaupiʻo". GoLook...
p262 Ke Kaua ʻo Kauaʻawa
p180 The Battle of the Bitter Rain
Some of us, being familiar with volcanic activities, wonder if ʻawa might also refer to the bitter, pungent sulphurous air during a time of really bad polalauahi (vog), if the battle happened during such a time. (Mahalo jk)
And the geographies in the above text donʻt seem to be linear, as in going from here to there, then there, though places named are in the region.
Always, always, something to wonder about...
Like: When will Halemaʻumaʻu overflow?
But if we ask that, then Where will it overflow to???
As of this morning, according to the HVO Update, the loko ahi was 656 feet deep. And though Iʻm not particularly good at math, here are some calculations. Busʻ out the paper and pencil...
At the HVO "Maps" page, we find this excellent thing:
The green line is the rim of Halemaʻumaʻu. Just below "north", in "Inactive north vent", thereʻs that little bulge, where during the 62 lūʻōniu of Summer 2018, collapse events werenʻt particularly tidy. They didnʻt leave cleanly sheared crater rims. Hoping that the annotated webcam image below is readable... see: "lowest part of rim of Halemaʻumaʻu, 2,625 ft asl".
The bottom of the Lua was 1,696 ft asl. So 2625 (-) 1696 = 929 ft total depth of HMM.
As of this morning, 1/16/21, the loko ahi was about 656 feet deep, having deepened three feet during the past day.
929 (-) 656 = 273 feet to Overflow...Technically. I wouldnʻt get too excited. We can see how the bowl of the Lua widens toward the top. If flux (erupted volume) stays more or less the same, itʻll take a long while to get up there. And then there are other kaulu (ledges) and pali to climb before She reaches the main floor.
Weʻve learned to never, ever, predict what Pelehonuamea will do. She has a mind of her own...
Well...This has been far-ranging. I need to range outside...
As always, with aloha,
BobbyC
maniniowali@gmail.com
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