Tales of a Technogypsie

[ Back to Chapter 29: Big Island ]   [ Chapter 30: Kona & Underseas adventure ]   [ Chapter 31: Volcano to Honolulu ] Snorkeling at Captain Cook, Big Island From the journal of Sir Thomas “Rymour Oisin” Leaf: Saturday, The 8th of Sextilis (Julius Caesar’s “August”) in the good year 2009 of the [...]

Ka’u Desert Ka’u Desert Big Island, Hawaii The Kaʻū Desert is an amazing desert of lava rock and sand in the southwest rift zone of the Kilauea volcano. It is not a true desert because it does get rainfall, albeit it acid rain, and it exceeds 1,000 mm per year. (39 inches) The desert consists [...]

Big Island Mauna Loa Big Island, Hawaii Mauna Loa is one of Hawaii’s most active Shield Volcanoes. She is shaped like a shield because it produces lava that is extremely fluid with low viscosity and possesses very low slopes. It is one of 5 that make up the Hawaiian Islands. The others are Kohala (dormant), [...]

Big Island Volcano National Park Volcano, Big Island, Hawaii One of Hawaii’s most notorious and famous National Parks, “Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park” was established in 1916 as a National Park, a International Biosphere Reserve in 1980, and a World Heritage Site in 1987 to demonstrate the history and living geological experiene of volcanism, geology, and [...]

Big Island Pu’u o’o is a cindercone / spatter cone on the East Rift Zone of Kilauea in the Hawaiian Island of Big Island. It has been erupting continuously since January 3, 1983 making it the longest living rift zone eruption for the last two centuries. It has expanded over 37 square miles from 1983-1998 [...]

Kilauea Caldera Kilauea Volcano, Big Island, Hawaii Kīlauea is one of the most spectacular volcanoes existing on Big Island in Hawaii. Rising 4,091 feet above sea level, the summit caldera is a broad shelf of uplands well beneath the long profile of Mauna Loa. It is a very low flat shield volcano lying against the [...]

Kalapana Village, Big Island, Hawaii Kalapana, Big Island, Hawaii Now just a little tourist stop-off and memorial, Kalapana was once a town in the region of the Puna District. It was demolished in the 1990 Kīlauea lava flow from the Puʻu ʻŌʻō vent which destroyed and partly buried much of the Kalapana Gardens and nearby [...]

Kalapana Lava Flows, Big Island, Hawaii Kalapana Lava Beds Off Highway 137, Near Hilo, Big Island, HawaiiThe Kalapana Lava Beds are part of the ever-growing newly settled part of the Big Island of Hawaii. These fields are the remains of lava flows that devestated the Puna district area in 1990. Lava is a molten rock [...]