That’s what I was thinking. I’m still wondering where v3 is located. I think it’s where the B2 camera was.
Some activity started around sunset. It’s throwing sparse glowing rocks right now.
Now @ 0830 Eastern = 0230 Hawaii we have glowing and steady steaming / smoking from both vents. The lower, closer vent has flames and an occasional spit-up and fallback of lava.
Best seen on V1.
3:07 local time. V1 is showing a small fountain.
It is fabulous right now.
Wow! It’s huge!
We are driving there now. Fingers crosse it doesn’t subside before we arrive.
I think this is the most spectacular footage I’ve seen in real time rather than taped. It’s just a massive fountain of lava right now.
We are almost to the park entrance. Lots if traffic.
Just got home from a great viewing. Here’s a sample photo.
That is a great picture !!
I missed all the fun.. i blame time zones.
Amazing photo, Carol! Where where were you when you took that photo?
Hopefully, upwind and uphill.
Great photo, thanks. It looks incredibly hot, I guess you weren’t affected so much? Others seem a lot closer. Maybe it’s the telephoto effect
At the usual viewing area the Park Service set up. It’s near the crater rim on the side opposite where the eruption is occurring.
Yeah, we weren’t buffeted by high winds or blowing tephra. We probably did feel the warmth but all it did was mitigate the chill a bit. It is pretty cold at night at that elevation.
At the viewing area there is a rope in place that people are not supposed to cross. (A few idiots always do - I’m waiting for a casualty. The injury won’t be from direct contact with hot lava, it will be from a bad fall or gas inhalation. Anyone trying to get right next to the lava would do themselves in before they got that close.)
Anyhow, one can go right up to the rope and stand there, but you are shoulder-to-shoulder with others, especially last night. People took off for the park as soon as they saw that this was a particularly spectacular episode, and things were really congested.
The path to the end of the viewing area is slightly downhill. As we were approaching the end, I said “let’s stop here - another 30 or 40 feet isn’t going to improve the view particularly, and there aren’t a zillion people jostling for position if we stand back a little.” So we are somewhat behind and above the edge of the viewing area that is closest to the action.
I also missed the live feed but fount a highlight video:
Brian
In 2006 my wife and I hiked out to where there was at that time a live lava stream flowing into the ocean, past the end of Chain of Craters Road, a most amazing experience. There were cones marking off a dangerous area of new unstable land, and the rangers warned us not to cross it. The day before we were there, some idiot had crossed the cones and walked out onto the unstable area, and was killed when it collapsed.
This latest eruption just made it onto the national news here in the UK.
Apparently the lava spews were “over 1000ft, about as high as the Eiffel Tower !”
I like that those Big Island Video News segments usually include the sound of the eruption, unlike the live cams. And remember, if you just missed an active phase, you can always scroll back on the live feeds up to 12 hours. Worth doing no matter where you come in, to see how things have been changing.
And … here is episode 24, if I haven’t lost track.
No worries if you miss it.