The Kilauea summit caldera, within Halemaumau Crater, began erupting at 2:30AM this morning.  Volcanic fountains up to 262 feet, with gas emissions now at 8,000 feet levels.   How long will this continue?  Not sure, but if you had any urge to see Hawaii at Christmas-time, plus view an eruption, why not now, as the weather throughout the state is fabulous.    Watch this video . Kilauea eruptions have kept this blog site going.  Read my posting of 30April2018 which was titled  MY FINAL DAILY BLOG . Then on 3May2018 I provided a  grand perspective of this 10-year old blog site .  The very next day, Kilauea Volcano erupted, and I posted on  PUNA AGAIN BECOMES THE MOST DANGEROUS SPOT ON EARTH .  I said: It was on   3January1983  that Kilauea Volcano   first erupted .  I just happened to be golfing at the Volcano Golf Course that day, when, on the tenth hole we felt the ground shudder: Soon thereafter, we saw fountains...

The past ten days or so have mostly focused on our Pride of America cruise throughout the Hawaiian Islands.  So let me continue with one more travel item:   Kilauea Volcano began erupting last night , which was already September 11 for much of the USA, so come to the Big Island of Hawaii.  You can land in Hilo or Kona and drive to this natural attraction, although it's closer from Hilo.  But you ask, how long will this lava activity continue?  Well,it was sort of doing something only 22 days ago.  But it's hard to believe that there has been some continuing activity for the past 40 years or so. I had recently returned from working in the U.S. Senate for three years.  As we normally did in those days, we spent the New Year period with her family in Hilo.  So on January 3, 1983, I was golfing at the Volcano Golf Course.  The ground shook and there was a strange rumbling sound.  Soon thereafter, only a few thousand yards away, we saw a...