Am headed for the island of Kaua'i sometime early next week. While in Kaua'i, I plan to make my way into the heart of the Waimea Canyon for some water samples from the stream and its tributaries, and also to drive around the island and gather water from some of the major streams on the island. All in the name of science. Life is hard.
On Kaua'i, I also plan to recover from the coming weekend. The students have a long weekend now (the ones still in the house have been sipping rum and coke since lunch and we all went to this beach in the afternoon) and two of them are planning to hike up Mauna Loa on Saturday and Sunday. I'm going to go with them. It's not a trivial undertaking, actually, the mountain is the biggest volcano in the world and, when measured from sea level, is higher than Everest. I'm not sure we're starting our hike that far down its slopes... actually we are going to drive up to the observatories up there and hike the last few thousand feet to the summit. On the summit there is a huge caldera (scroll down the page to see the ML caldera) that the small geologist inside me just can't wait to see.
Life is hard indeed.
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