Red and Rover by Brian Basset for July 10, 2024

Hawaiian liquid sunshine, but none of the other stimuli.

Without the stress that comes from living on a volcano.

A grade school teacher said that rain in Hawaii was just like taking a shower. Yeah, taking a shower with your clothes on, I found out when I got there.

“Aloha”.

I was there in 87 and 89. No rain then…

Nothing like being in a pool in the summer, with a sprinkler! Ha

……..almost?

Haʻaheo e ka ua i nā pali Ke nihi aʻela i ka nahele E hahai (uhai) ana paha i ka liko Pua ʻāhihi lehua o uka

Aloha ʻoe, aloha ʻoe E ke onaona noho i ka lipo One fond embrace, A hoʻi aʻe au Until we meet again

O ka haliʻa aloha i hiki mai Ke hone aʻe nei i Kuʻu manawa ʻO ʻoe nō kuʻu ipo aloha A loko e hana nei

Maopopo kuʻu ʻike i ka nani Nā pua rose o Maunawili I laila hiaʻai nā manu Mikiʻala i ka nani o ka liko

Well, certainly cheaper than going there, Red.

I’m waiting for the twins to show up and ruin his day!

Without the airfare and expense! Love seeing my little ones having fun and happy!

Saw it rain there out of a clear blue sky. Later, I understood the mechanism. Off in the distance I could see a cloud producing rain that fell a little way and was then blown horizontally for quite a distance before it continued to fall. Where it was hitting the water would have had a pretty much clear sky.

Indeed !!!

A little Hawaii volcanoes info. The volcanoes in Hawaii (yes, the big island, Hawaii and Maui) are all shield volcanoes. Their eruptions are not explosive, but more gentle. The flow of lava can be out-walked. Yes, it is devastating if your house is eaten by the goddess Pele. That is why one has insurance. BTW, on the big island, there are 9 volcano zones. About a third of the island is in zones 8 and 9, the safest. The eruptions from Kilauea and Mauna Loa (the one above Kailua Kona) are the ones that one can protect oneself from by the location of their home, even if it is in a Zone 2 area… like if it is near the top of a hill, as lava only flows downhill. I prefer the Kohala area. Kohala is the oldest volcano on the big island and it hasn’t erupted for 120,000 years and is considered nearly extinct. Mauna Kea is the 13,000 ft volcano (the one that gets snowfall every winter) and hasn’t erupted for 4,600 years. It is considered dormant and possibly to erupt sometime in the next 10,000 years. Many volcanologists believe Mauna Kea on the verge of being extinct. I just read some interesting info from the USGS… here’s the link: >

Kauai – where if it doesn’t rain today, it will rain twice as much tomorrow.

CORRECTION: The eruptions are sometimes explosive, but not Mt St Helens kind of explosive. The vast majority of eruptions are gentle flows of lava with some beautiful fountains of lava at the summit. There has not been an explosive eruption in Hawaii for thousands of years. I read also that within a few hundred thousand years, Kohala will become a separate island as all of the Hawaiian islands are sinking (1/8 inch per year). Then Mauna Loa and Hualalai will also become separate island. Hualalai is the one Hawaiian volcano that one should keep far away from as it is the only one with steep sides, so NOT a slow rate of lava flow. It last erupted a couple hundred years ago and is considered dormant…

The only time I took a trip to Hawaii, a tropical storm sat over the islands and rained out most of our activities. I didn’t even get to see the volcano.

No, it’s not.

Hehehe. When our son was young he felt that Maui was his real home

Just a tiny bit.

And you have the pleasure of each other’s company ….. what could be better then that Red and Rover ….. :)