Messing With The Lava :)
On saturday morning, 8.23.2002......
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Lava! our first sight of it.... |
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Got the smart idea to use the flash :) nice picture. |
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Travis poking at the lava with our metal rod (actually a weed eater shaft :). |
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Metal rod with some already hard lava on it... |
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That stuff sure does harden fast, if you don't get to the red stuff, its very hard to break through. |
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Very hot flow, we couldn't get close enough to collect any of this lava... |
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Same as above but with the flash :) what a difference... |
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Me! shielding myself from the heat, it is really intense. |
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Small piece of lava that I managed to pull from the mass. |
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More new lava seeping out from under the quickly hardening flow. |
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Travis pulling back a partially hardened section, letting the red stuff loose :). |
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Here is the chunk he got. (we got the idea to bend our rod into a hook, that's why we were able to pull off more) |
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Travis doing something.... |
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Me pulling back on a fairly hardened section... |
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The result :) the rod was bending under the weight of that mass... And I had to wait for the camera flash to charge up again after the previous shot...... |
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Nice looking flow... looks like its going down a small hill. |
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Travis heating up the rod to who knows what temperature... We think that was what removed our hook from the end of the rod :) |
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Him standing in front of the oncoming flow. But don't worry, it moves
very slowly. I'm sure he was feeling the heat though. *blurry |
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Me doing the same, although with a little more light. *blurry |
*The digital camera has a few issues... I'm not sure if I can really blame it, but if there isn't much light then it leaves the shutter open for 1/2 second, were as with the flash and stuff it's only open for 1/200 of a second... That is what caused the blurriness, I think a tripod would have fixed this, but as you may have already seen, we weren't exactly 100% prepared :).
© Chester Lowrey August 28 2002