#lava eruption

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Was fortunate to score another plane share before dawn with some great photographers Doug Perrine, G. Brad Lewis and skilled pilot Scott Wilson with Aloha Skies Aviation here on the Big Island of Hawaii. Tomorrow is my last day in Puna so trying to cover as much ground as possible, AP picked up another dozen images today so that takes the sting out of the expenses to come - I’d have done it either way! While there has been lava in the caldera chamber on and off for eons, it is totally drained now and being fed through the lava tubes along the new rift zone and still pumping like mad mostly out of Fissure 8. A cone is now forming on three sides and growing higher daily, lava pouring out and forming what folks here are calling “The River” flowing all the way down to Kalapana miles away and ending at the ocean. As devastating and it’s been to hundreds of residents and their properties there’s no denying to beauty and power of nature. More to come!

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Here is a lava vent in action, May 4, 2018, right in the middle of the Leilani Estates neighborhood of Hawaii’s Big Island.  The guy filming this has a cousin whose house is part of the neighborhood, and he’s sworn to stay as long as he can so that people can know what is actually happening.

That noise like the ocean is the sound made by the spitting lava vent.

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Whoa... before and after shots of the Big Island....

Camped at Kalapana Beach in 2015 and it's covered in lava now.

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