Dr Matt McConeghy Hawaii 2001

Hawaii

People and Sights

Pearl Harbor

Oil slick on the waters of Pearl Harbor, a few feet above the sunken hull of the Battleship USS Arizona.

More than 1000 American servicemen have lain entombed here since the Japanese sneak attack of December 7, 1941. Oil still leaks from the wreck as an eerie memorial while crowds of American and Japanese tourists pay their respects here daily.

Ironically, 60 years later in Waikiki this theatre is showing the Hollywood saga "Pearl Harbor" to crowds consisting mostly of young Japanese tourists...

Unusual ecology and geology bring scientific tourists.

Dr Chuck Blay guides a group of visiting scientists around the caldera of Kilauea crater

Dr Don Swanson of the Volcano Research Lab checks the seismograph recorder as Dr David Seidel of JPL/NASA and other scientists watch.

At the Volcano National Park scientists review the volcanic history of the islands

crossing lava field near Ka Lae	Lava flow over the pali
Pahala ash at Mahana bay	see volcano for more	Pahoehoe form lava

Hilo, Windward Coast

the Farmer's Market

Surfboards at Waikiki

beach caution signs

Waikiki at dawn

this is work

Some miscellaneous sights and folks...

Climber at Heiau (native altar) atop Mauna Kea 13,796'

Warning alarm at Laupahoehoe site of the tragic 1946 Tsunami that killed over 150 people

offerings to Pele on the lava delta

Experimental Windmill farm near Ka Lae

Historic Kawaiahao Church 1840 Mission site

Volcano House at the Volcano national Park

Torch Lighting at Waikiki in the center of tourist territory

Honolulu from the foothills -- out a bus window

Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor on the site of the sunken hull of the USS Arizona. Anchored next to the sunken Arizona is the USS Missouri -- the battleship on which the Japanese military signed the papers signifying their total "unconditional surrender."

Air view of Pearl harbor with USS Arizona Memorial and USS Missouri

and part of the gun turret of the sunken battleship

Geologists in the South Rift where ash from a 1790s eruption is covered by black lava flows of the 1971 eruption

Tourists pass through the Thurston Lava Tube-- an underground passageway where lava flowed during an eruption

ancient walls at Ka Lae

beach litter -- tons of lost ropes from fishing vessels litter beaches around the islands

not tourist Hilo

beaches and volcano and ecology

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