A littoral explosion at dusk. Explosions such as this have been common throughout the last several weeks at the Waikupanaha entry.

Geologist sets up a time lapse camera near a skylight at the top of Royal Gardens. Lava in this tube travels downslope until it reaches the ocean at Waikupanaha, creating the steam plume in the background.

Need to motivate here and make a quick trip into town , it’s such a nice morning , sunny nice little breeze blowing . Not conducive to going to work at all . Went a little slow this week working some of it alone getting used to using my arm seems to be the hard part still can’t bring it over my head. At least there is no waves to make me feel gimpy because I still can’t paddle the board .

Ok here i go ttyl , going to blaze thru and get back home . Perhaps a little BBQ and a pineapple upside down cake .