Images of Hawaii's geological and geographic features.
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Clouds gather in the early afternoon as the Haleakala Basin heats up. In a short time,the entire basin will be obscured in cloud cover.
Haleakala Crater viewed from the summit Visitor Center. The gray linear features extending downslope into the summit basin are debris trains and active slides, fine-grained material actively creeping downslope.
The view into Haleakala's summit basin from Kalahaku Overlook. The Sliding Sands Trail that leads down into the summit basin snakes uphill behind one of the recently-erupted cinder cones.
The last turn before the summit, Haleakala Summit Road.
Watching the clouds roll in along the lower stretch of Haleakala Summit Road, south Maui.
The view of Ma'alaea Bay and the West Maui Mountains (center-left part of frame) from the Pi'ilani Highway just south of Ulupalakua Ranch. The white structures just downslope along the shoreline mark the southernmost extent of the community of Makena, south Maui.
West Maui Mountains on the hazy horizon. Lana'i can be seen on the distant horizon, left side of photo. Shot taken from the roadbed of the Kula Highway, near Ulupalakua Ranch, south Maui.
The southern slopes of Haleakala volcano (the rim of the summit basin is visible in the center of the photo, just above the cloud bank) are the awesome backdrop for St. John's Catholic Church near Kaupo on the Pi'ilani Highway, south Maui. This image is a composite of five separate photographs of the ridgeline that forms the volcano's south rim.
Looking northward across the churchyard of St. John's Catholic Church toward the south-facing slope of Haleakala volcano, near Kaupo, south Maui. My trusty Toyota waits just outside the churchyard near an incongruous squeaky metal turnstile. To my way of thinking, this is an appropriately awe-inspiring setting for a humble parish church.
Clouds gather in the early afternoon as the Haleakala Basin heats up. In a short time,the entire basin will be obscured in cloud cover.
Clouds gather in the early afternoon as the Haleakala Basin heats up. In a short time,the entire basin will be obscured in cloud cover.
Clouds gather in the early afternoon as the Haleakala Basin heats up. In a short time,the entire basin will be obscured in cloud cover.
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