Steam Vents

Today's tour brought together a japanese family posing for our tour guide with the steam vents in the background.

With all the Volcanic Activity there has been many newspaper articles.

Our Aircraft

The Aircraft we use is the Bombardier Shorts SD3-60. Configured for 30 seats the Shorts offers plenty of legroom and big windows for easy visibility.

Volcano Tour is selling out!

There has been a lot of activity with Kilauea. A few photo's shot by our tour guide shows guests on the lava fields along with a photo discussing the sulpher dioxide emissions.

The creation of new land

As you can see from the photographs taken from today's volcano tour the lava is currently running into the ocean. This is causing the big island of Hawaii to increase in size.

The current size of the big island is 4,038 square miles. How does this compare to the size of the other islands? All the other Hawaiian Islands could easily fit into the Big Island more than two times over.

Up close and personal with Madam Pele'

photograph from Hawaii Tribune Herald March 4, 2008

Faintly glowing pahoehoe lava crawls steadily makai about mid-afternoon Tuesday. Columns of smoke in the distance rise from vegetation scorched by lava as it invaded the Royal Gardens subdivision. - William Ing/Tribune-Herald

Hawaiian Volcano Observatory scientist-in-charge Jim Kauahikaua said that the flow is still advancing, although at a slower rate than over the past weekend.

The flow has been moving in a shallow ditch between the margins of two flows that were erupted in 2002 and 2007, Kauahikaua said.

"As of 10:30 this morning, it has reached a point 200 meters or 600 feet north of the access road. It's actually aimed at a point about 100 or 150 feet east of the turnaround area, so if it continues it will cut off the turnaround area," Kauahikaua said. "Barring any other changes, the flow will go into the ocean."