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Beautiful, even, to use a dangerously over-hyped word, awesomely so, but
don't expect drama and action, just beauty, which, of course, is in the
eye of the beholder ...

https://www.youtube.com/@Kanal13AZ/streams
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On Mon, 10 Nov 2025 00:00:12 +0000
Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> wrote:

Beautiful, even, to use a dangerously over-hyped word, awesomely so,
but don't expect drama and action, just beauty, which, of course, is
in the eye of the beholder ...

https://www.youtube.com/@Kanal13AZ/streams

Not bad. We were there in 1995, but we just saw a hole in the ground
which had red rocks in it. Nothing like that.
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On 10/11/2025 00:00, Java Jive wrote:

Beautiful, even, to use a dangerously over-hyped word, awesomely so, but don't expect drama and action, just beauty, which, of course, is in the
eye of the beholder ...

https://www.youtube.com/@Kanal13AZ/streams

I visited the "Big Island" in 1989, and Kilauea was gently erupting
then. Very impressive, of course, but I missed a very rare spectacular
event by 5 days. The lava flow reached the cliff barrier by the sea and punched a hole in it, allowing a stream of molten lava to pour straight
out horizontally for several metres and fall into the sea below it,
creating vast clouds of steam. This sort of thing: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzwuTBx93uA>

I don't know if you're allowed to do it now, but you could walk on
still-warm (but not hot) lava fields at the edge of the Kilauea lava
streams. That stuff was dangerous - not because of the heat, but because
it was effectively obsidian glass. So it was quite slippery when
complete, but if damaged you were walking on long shards of broken
glass. I think it was referred to by the guide as -+a-+-U lava (might have been p-Uhoehoe).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lava#Lava_morphology>
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On 10/11/2025 08:15, Jeff Layman wrote:

On 10/11/2025 00:00, Java Jive wrote:

Beautiful, even, to use a dangerously over-hyped word, awesomely so, but
don't expect drama and action, just beauty, which, of course, is in the
eye of the beholder ...

https://www.youtube.com/@Kanal13AZ/streams

I visited the "Big Island" in 1989, and Kilauea was gently erupting
then. Very impressive, of course, but I missed a very rare spectacular
event by 5 days. The lava flow reached the cliff barrier by the sea and punched a hole in it, allowing a stream of molten lava to pour straight
out horizontally for several metres and fall into the sea below it,
creating vast clouds of steam. This sort of thing: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzwuTBx93uA>

I don't know if you're allowed to do it now, but you could walk on still-warm (but not hot) lava fields at the edge of the Kilauea lava streams. That stuff was dangerous - not because of the heat, but because
it was effectively obsidian glass. So it was quite slippery when
complete, but if damaged you were walking on long shards of broken
glass. I think it was referred to by the guide as -+a-+-U lava (might have been p-Uhoehoe).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lava#Lava_morphology>

I was luck enough to visit the Big Island in I think 1991 when it was
also erupting and had closed one of the roads through the national park.
As you say, you were allowed to walk over what seemed to be a thin
crust of hot but solid lave, and look through holes to see orange
flowing lava just beneath. Very impressive, and perhaps rather
dangerous. Some people poked sticks through and saw them catch fire;
there were one or two who tried to embed a coin in the end of a cleft
stick and get it covered with lave which solidified and then pull the
stick back - this sometimes worked. But I didn't have a cleft stick to
hand, sadly. I wonder if you can still do that.

What struck me were the signs beside the road on the way in - now a
dead-end of course. They said something like: "Warning: 55 mile round
trip with no gas, food or water". So amusing that the US authorities
thought it more essential to warn you of the absence of fast-food joints
than that you might find orange-hot lava just beneath your feet.
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