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Saturday, March 10, 2012
Hawaii Lava Tube
Here's the last of my scenic scanned photos from our 1997 trip to Hawaii (taken from a print from a point-and-shoot film camera). It's a lava tube; in an old eruption, lava flowed out of this tube.
You can get a sense of its size by the people dimly visible on the left railing just before it's completely dark. And yes, we walked into the tube, and it was a very unique experience on many levels.
Please visit the new Vintage Weekly meme, which is picking up where Sunday Scans left off. I'll certainly be a regular participant there!
Please visit the new Vintage Weekly meme, which is picking up where Sunday Scans left off. I'll certainly be a regular participant there!
Love the way the vegetation has regenerated. What was the temperature in the tube compared to the outside world, hot or cooler.
ReplyDeleteThat is awesome, Al!! I have to wonder if I'd be too chicken to walk into that tube!! Hope your weekend is going well. Give Socks a pat for Sam and I!
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Oh my....!! Yes I can see a couple of people standing to the left of the fence.. What a grat cave! Or is it not a cave? lava tube.. How fantastic it must have been to see all the lava and quite exciting to have been inside of that tube (or cave?)!!
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This is a most interesting picture. I never knew lava would leave a tube like this.♥♫
ReplyDeleteYou did well - hard to get a good picture looking into a tube. I always thought I'd do Sunday Scans someday -- now I guess I'll say that I'll do Vintage Weekly someday. (First I've got to take time to scan seven million photos ;>)!) I'm glad you did that!!
ReplyDeleteLooks like an interesting place, the linky btw is open for business-thanks for the plug:) I posted one of my fathers old photographs on it as he wanted me to post some of his old images. I was still using my Advantix camera in 1997, I didn't change to digital until 2005.
ReplyDeleteOh wow, that is so fascinating! Normally, I only think of the lava spewing out of the crater during eruptions. But now that you've pointed it out, yes, they do come out elsewhere.
ReplyDeleteWow! Just amazing this lava tube!
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