Hawaii Volcanoes
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Uploaded by squared9 on Nov 28, 2009
Movie from two trips to Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park. Summer trip captured Kilauea caldera, Halema'uma'u crater, steam vents, sulphur dioxide emissions and Kilauea Iki. Autumn helitrip on a door-less Hughes 500 from rainy Hilo to active area shows a lava flow entering the ocean near Kalapana, past destruction of towns and gardens, fumaroles (gas vents), Pu'u 'O'o' active lava vents and magma skylight.
The weather was typical for Hilo, heavy rain all the time and we were lucky to take off as our flight was the first after three days of terrible weather. Unfortunately this prevented us from flying over the active Pu'u 'O'o crater.
Music was chosen to reflect both destructive and creative nature of volcanoes, perpetual fight between the forces of life and death as well as a reminder of uncertainty of things we perceive as cast in stone, especially when seeing the stone in making.
The first song is a traditional offering to Pele, Hawaiian goddess of fire, volcanoes, lightning, dance and violence that is believed to be residing in the Halema'uma'u crater of Kilauea. As in any part of the world, some people still worship these ancient natural deities though no longer sacrificing humans in luakini heiau-s to please Pele. I have seen a Hawaiian local preventing a tourist from taking pictures of the Haleakala crater while flying over Maui, arguing such an action would provoke Pele's anger.
The second song is Bring me to Life from Evanescence, that by its contradictory and inconsistent appearance expresses the nature of volcanoes that are like a borderline lover that could not live without her soul-mate yet destroying him by her very presence, by an eruption of destruction both feared of and longed for, a true Pele characteristics.
The last song, In the End by Linkin Park comes to mind while flying over the destroyed town of Kapaahu and Royal Gardens, observing the path of destruction by lava eruption in the '80s. Despite hard trying of the locals to live there, everything was lost in an instant of a Kilauea eruption.
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memartini 8 months ago
Fantastic video, thank you very much for sharing this. Didn't they have doors on the helicopter? I would have been afraid of falling out! Excellent photography though.
dianlew1 1 year ago