Halema`uma`u looks high up in the tube tonight

[pahoated]

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Originally posted by konabish

I haven't spoken much of this.

I was the only person on earth present when the Queen's Bath filled with lava. I had watched everyone leave after darkness fell. Evening became cool, I was thirsty and hungry. Pele was there. I stayed until daybreak. The lava reached the sea.

I was on the upper slope of Mauna Loa in a remote lava tube. There was white powder and fragile, hardened blood-red lava like Chinese jade sculpture. I felt her presence, and I talked to her.

I was in Kalapana while the painted church was being moved. Unplanned, I spent the day on the lava flows with Maurice and Katia Krafft, and another volcanologist, Vivianne. All 3 later died at volcanos; Maurice and Katia in Japan, and Vivianne in Indonesia.

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That is pretty heavy and shows how dangerous vulcanology can be. This is a very recent awesome photograph. It almost looks like little continents tearing away from each other.

http://www.bigislandvideonews.com/wp-con...anoBIG.jpg