Hawaii Island’s Holei Sea Arch appears here in an unusual (for me anyway) morning view. At 90 feet high, the column results from Pacific waves directly pounding and also undermining surrounding Kilauea basalt. Just such a wave appears in the background, blasting up a cliff and further, in a plume well over 100 feet high. Several big waves also slammed the arch while I was on the next major alongshore protuberance. Someday, one of them will crash it down into a turbulent heap of saltwater, boulders and foam, hopefully without a person standing on top. To get here for this frontal morning light, which I had desired since my first Big Island trip in 2017, it was a long drive down Chain of Craters Road from my rental cottage in Volcano village, but well worth the trip for oceanside majesty like this. My sleep hadn’t yet rotated forward from the mainland, so the early hours actually worked out for once, and I was in the area even for sunrise.
9 WSW Kalapana HI (12 Sep 25) Looking WSW
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