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The long-anticipated Highcastle entry--at last
Note: all images today were taken from virtually the same spot, looking west most times but east occasionally.
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Left. Western (left) and middle lava falls at new Highcastle entry. Height of sea cliff at Highcastle is an estimated 10-15 m. 0521. Right. Telephoto of bottom of western falls. Slow shutter speed causes drops to smear out. 0522.
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Left. Eastern lava falls at new Highcastle entry. This falls is just west of the eastern road kipuka. 0530. Right. Looking west again, telephoto of part of middle falls, now being joined by another entry in lower right (better shown in next image). 0546.
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Left. Dim predawn light shows profile of sea cliff and another lava falls just joining the group at right side of image. 0548. Right. Looking east again at the eastern cluster of lava falls and sea cliff beyond. 0549:30.
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Left. Now another falls has appeared, just west of the former westernmost falls. It shows as streaky drips just left of main western falls. Middle falls is most prominent. 0556:45. Right. Dawn rainbow, sun catching wave, and lava falls on a glorious Friday morning. 0613.
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Sunlight, with some alpen glow, on western part of new Highcastle entry. 0614.
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8 August 2002
Highcastle lobe, in night and day
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Left. Bubbly lava toe at leading edge of most active tongue of Highcastle lobe at 0556. In large view, note incandescent wrinkles in crust on lava. Width of view about 70 cm. Right. Head-on view of most active tongue of Highcastle lobe, heading toward sea but still 85 m away. Pulama pali in background. 0603.
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Left. Branch of most active tongue burning vegetation at 0611. Right. Most active tongue, though slithering quickly downslope, is dwarfed in context of entire flow field. Pulama pali in background. 0622.
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7 August 2002
Mother's Day descent, and finger into the sea
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Left. Looking inland, over Paliuli (middleground) to slope above. Steep slope is Pulama pali. View shows main branch of Mother's Day flow. West branch is just left of view. Right. Shiny active tongue of West Highcastle flow nears sea cliff on east side of West Highcastle entry area.
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Left. Only a matter of minutes now before lava plunges down sea cliff to Pacific below. Right. Tongue feeds dribble of lava onto rocky base of sea cliff.
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6 August 2002
Lava near Highcastle
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Dawn over slowly advancing lava 170 m inland from eastern Highcastle kipuka. 0541.
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Left. Toes of lava emerge from pahoehoe along edge of Highcastle lobe of Mother's Day flow at 0551. Toes are fed from liquid interior of flow, which is both moving seaward and inflating. Right. View inland at 0552 from tip of Highcastle lobe. In middle distance, tops of four or five Paliuli cascades are visible. Pulama pali in background.
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5 August 2002
Viewers at Wilipe`a bench
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Viewers cluster atop sea cliff for best view of lava entering sea off southwest part of Wilipe`a bench. 0539, just before dawn.
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2 August 2002
Aerial view of active flow and benches, and a hornito or spatter cone
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Aerial view of active flow field between Wilipe`a and West Highcastle benches and Paliuli. The shiny gray color of the new flows makes it easy to distinguish them from the vegetated flows on left (probably 600-900 years old) and the dark 1992-97 flows. View looks northeast.
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A roofed spatter cone--termed a hornito by some--built above upper part of Mother's Day lava tube just southwest of Pu`u `O`o and about 10 km from Wilipe`a bench.
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1 August 2002
Lava, lava everywhere, not only at the coast
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Two streams of lava in Mother's Day flow pour down Pulama pali inland of Paliuli, lighting the predawn (0448) sky in most spectacular display of flow in some time. This is view visitors get from end of pavement after short walk from parking area.
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West Highcastle bench. Left. Lava dribble and falls into water off front of bench at 0524. Right. Mostly crusted breakout on bench, and same falls shown in left image, with dawning sky behind at 0528.
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