Pele's Surprise, October 20, 2017

While I was out in the field shooting lava during a quick trip, there was a huge tube rupture happening right in front of my eyes on the Pali. So I grabbed my gear and ran to the base of it. Lava had already reached the bottom and I was rewarded with A'a channels and super hot and fluid pahoehoe rivers that were coming down in a steep spot. I managed to get footage of the flow front of the A'a, it was absolutely amazing. Pele really gave me a great birthday present, I could not have asked for something better.

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Lava October 19, 2017

That's what I saw today while hiking out to the lava. It was a nice day out, lava was pretty active in the field and upslope at the base of the Pali. Cloudy skies and passing showers made it a perfect day to be out, topped by a very vibrant rainbow at the end. The pressure was up and Pele pushed forward this morning, some of the surface flows very extremely hot and fluid. Earlier that morning I measured more than 1600F in one of the breakouts, some spots were probably hotter. It was a nice day to be out and Pele provided some nice flows this morning

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Lava Rivulet

Flow field and night sky

Pele showed me her heart

Me trying to catch the rainbow in the flow field

Lava October 9, 2017

That's what we saw today out at the lava. It was a beautiful day with an amazing sunrise and nice thin wispy clouds. Lava was flowing strong at the base of the Pali with some flows still coming down. My group had a great time and enjoyed Pele's creation. 
There were breakouts at many spots simultaneously and it kept going strong while we were out. There was almost no plume cloud at the ocean entry again, but it could also mean that there was a lot of activity.
I might check with the boat captains. 

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Lava sunrise

view towards the Pali

Lava oozing out

Lava toe close-up

Lava October 6, 2017

When I checked the webcam at 2:30am that morning, I saw that a huge river of lava was coming down the Pali. So I decided to climb up to the Pali and check it out. I literally ran the 3.5 miles up and was rewarded with A'a channels, very hot and fluid pahoehoe rivers and a lot of lava from several tube ruptures. It was almost unreal.
 It was a great early morning up there with a lot of lava and a setting moon around sunrise.
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Pahoehoe Rivers

Tube rupture