Category: Geology & Rocks

For our stop in Hilo on Wednesday, Cathy and I hired a private guide to take us on an all-day tour of Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park. This is a lengthy post, but it was an amazing day, and it took 40 of the 250 photos I shot to share...

People often refer to granite in ways that suggest its solidity, its permanence. In terms of a human life span that may be true but it’s interesting to see how granite reacts to the forces of Nature in the long term. In response to the photo of a balancing...

Although I used the word “volcano” in the title, Golden Horn isn’t technically a volcano, as the lava that oozed out of it wasn’t an eruption. I fairly often post photos of Golden Horn as we see it from our property, but tonight I’d like to show you how...