06-29-2008, 05:23 AM
E Huli Makou! Let’s all turn around, and face the towering plume with its ruddy --and now pulsing-- incandescence! Best to see it at night when the wind circles around you and the sky is criss-crossed with leis of stars! Guide us Hokulea!
Went up for a concert of ukulele, steel guitar, bass and hula at the military camp on the volcano last weekend. The event was notable for the quality and quantity of the hula presented . The ladies and gentlemen were all extraordinary and illustrated, once again, that it is the spirit that animates the body and that the hula is the best dance to illuminate the spirit. It was so fun and eerie to go to a theatre set down in such close proximity to a field of steaming vents. They were doing the hula while all around them the island appeared to be burning.
After the concert, we went over to the Jagger museum to gaze down at the Halema’uma’u vent in the enormous Kilauea Caldera. There were few souls there. We used a flickering flashlight (pulsing incandescence?) to make our way to the overlook. A chill and erratic wind was blowing, swirling. You could easily imagine being blown into the giant maw of the Caldera. Thankfully, the giant plume was bent over toward the Southwest and away from me (so sorry, Pahala). The base of the plume glowed very red. It was fascinating and horrific. The night was nearly cloudless and the stars were very bright. You could see very far down into the crater, and very high up in the sky. It made me want to do a vamp.
HVO reports today that Kilauea and Pu’u’ O’o are both inflating. This inflation is accompanied by “increased ash production, increased amplitude of seismic tremor bursts, and increased intensity of vent incandescence at the summit.” The previously steady incandescence of the base of the plume at Halema’uma’u is now a “pulsing incandescence.” Seismic tremor levels, HVO reports, are at moderate levels with “episodic bursts increasing in intensity and reaching elevated values.” Some tremors now last for a very long period (VLP tremors), with a low frequency (i.e., “deep”) component. As Debbie Harry once sang, "Fade away and radiate." The amplitude of the tremor bursts has increased by 50% since last Friday. I hear a low and distant drum beat.
Just a little change. Small to say the least. Both a little scared. Neither one prepared! Beauty and the Beast! In Hawaii Island, the beauty and the beast are one!
Went up for a concert of ukulele, steel guitar, bass and hula at the military camp on the volcano last weekend. The event was notable for the quality and quantity of the hula presented . The ladies and gentlemen were all extraordinary and illustrated, once again, that it is the spirit that animates the body and that the hula is the best dance to illuminate the spirit. It was so fun and eerie to go to a theatre set down in such close proximity to a field of steaming vents. They were doing the hula while all around them the island appeared to be burning.
After the concert, we went over to the Jagger museum to gaze down at the Halema’uma’u vent in the enormous Kilauea Caldera. There were few souls there. We used a flickering flashlight (pulsing incandescence?) to make our way to the overlook. A chill and erratic wind was blowing, swirling. You could easily imagine being blown into the giant maw of the Caldera. Thankfully, the giant plume was bent over toward the Southwest and away from me (so sorry, Pahala). The base of the plume glowed very red. It was fascinating and horrific. The night was nearly cloudless and the stars were very bright. You could see very far down into the crater, and very high up in the sky. It made me want to do a vamp.
HVO reports today that Kilauea and Pu’u’ O’o are both inflating. This inflation is accompanied by “increased ash production, increased amplitude of seismic tremor bursts, and increased intensity of vent incandescence at the summit.” The previously steady incandescence of the base of the plume at Halema’uma’u is now a “pulsing incandescence.” Seismic tremor levels, HVO reports, are at moderate levels with “episodic bursts increasing in intensity and reaching elevated values.” Some tremors now last for a very long period (VLP tremors), with a low frequency (i.e., “deep”) component. As Debbie Harry once sang, "Fade away and radiate." The amplitude of the tremor bursts has increased by 50% since last Friday. I hear a low and distant drum beat.
Just a little change. Small to say the least. Both a little scared. Neither one prepared! Beauty and the Beast! In Hawaii Island, the beauty and the beast are one!