25-AUG-2007
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Me and the chopper pilot Joyce after flying over the Big Island lava fields. The lava was hotter than hell and flowed like a fast river. You had to see it to believe it.
25-AUG-2007
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Lava flowing out of the Lava Tube from the Pu'u O'o crater, which is the current active crater on the island. Most of these views were taken from 500 feet above the lava.
25-AUG-2007
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Lava flowing out of the Lava Tube from the Pu'u O'o crater, which is the current active crater on the island. Most of these views were taken from 500 feet above the lava.
25-AUG-2007
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Lava flowing out of the Lava Tube from the Pu'u O'o crater, which is the current active crater on the island. Most of these views were taken from 500 feet above the lava.
25-AUG-2007
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Lava flowing out of the Lava Tube from the Pu'u O'o crater, which is the current active crater on the island. Most of these views were taken from 500 feet above the lava. The pattern in the lava looks like something out of a Bat Man movie.
25-AUG-2007
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Lava flowing out of the Lava Tube from the Pu'u O'o crater, which is the current active crater on the island. Most of these views were taken from 500 feet above the lava.
25-AUG-2007
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Lava flowing out of the Lava Tube from the Pu'u O'o crater, which is the current active crater on the island. Most of these views were taken from 500 feet above the lava. This lava is moving about 25 to 30 miles an hour.
25-AUG-2007
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Lava flowing out of the Lava Tube from the Pu'u O'o crater, which is the current active crater on the island. Most of these views were taken from 500 feet above the lava.
25-AUG-2007
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Fast flowing lava coming out of the Lava Tube from the Pu'u O'o crater, which is the current active crater on the island. Most of these views were taken from 500 feet above the lava.
25-AUG-2007
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This little island formed in the Lava Flow. Lava flowing out of the Lava Tube from the Pu'u O'o crater, which is the current active crater on the island. Most of these views were taken from 500 feet above the lava.
25-AUG-2007
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A closer look at the little island in the lava flow. The island was moving but not as fast as the flow.
25-AUG-2007
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Lava flowing out of the Lava Tube from the Pu'u O'o crater, which is the current active crater on the island. Most of these views were taken from 500 feet above the lava.