Steaming Sea at Dawn

by Heidi Fickinger

Title

Steaming Sea at Dawn

Artist

Heidi Fickinger

Medium

Photograph - Photographic Print

Description

On June 3rd, 2018, an enormous river of lava from the 8th fissure that opened in during the current eruption of Kilauea, reached the ocean. A wall of lava some said was 30 feet tall, traveled over 600 yard per hour, demolishing houses, forests and roads until it poured into and buried the beautiful Kapoho Bay. Within two days, the bay was gone and the lava continued to flow under the surface of the sea in a swath hundreds of yards wide. On the day of this photo the lava had traveled nearly a mile beneath the surface of the sea, as was evidenced by swirls of steam rising as far as one could see. The temperature of the ocean was hotter than bathwater. The scope of this eruption is both breathtaking and heartbreaking due to the destruction of one of the most beautiful areas on the Big Island. The huge cloud of steam at the center of this image was colored golden by the rising dawn light.

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June 9th, 2018

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