Glorious Hawaiian Landscapes

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Looking down from a steep section on the Pulama Pali in Royal Gardens. In the fore & backgrounds you see some older (Feb. 2010) pahoehoe lava forms and far below are rivers of a`a lava creating massive mounds and fields; the dark areas are just-cooling a`a - two previously killed ohia trees smoulder from the heat.. This is being feed by continuous supply from the crater four miles further up --
For perspective, a lone hiker (red speck upper left) gazes on near the fifty-foot tall dead burning tree snag.

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