We’ve temporarily moved from the coast to the rainforest high up on the slopes of Kilauea volcano where we’re patiently awaiting the next eruption, which I can only assume is how all normal would people choose to spend their vacations. Kilauea has been following a fairly predictable eruption pattern for nearly two years, but “episode 55” of the eruption has broken that pattern, and the scientists have now been saying for the past week that it will erupt “in the next 1-2 days”, so we’re constantly checking the livestream when we’re not in the national park to make sure that nature isn’t unleashing her fury while we’re not around. During the past two nights we also had alarms set to go off every two hours, just to wake up and be sure that millions of tons of melted rock wasn’t being ejected a thousand feet into the sky, but so far the magma chamber continues to build with only small overflows at the surface.
My camera has chosen an inopportune moment to die, so it’s going to be iPhone and GoPro photos for the remainder of the trip. Despite the equipment failures it was nevertheless fun to hang out at the crater wall last night and watch the main vent spew out small amounts of lava and smoke under a sky filled with a million stars.
