Last view of lava on beach, with steam now forming constant acidic plume hazardous to your health. 0627.

Photographer provides scale above skylight in lava tube on new bench. Skylight is same as that near right side of above two images. 0600.

Looking west across eastern part of Wilipe`a bench (light, covered with sublimates from laze), formed in late July. New flow (dark) moved onto former beach in foreground, covered beach and part of Wilipe`a bench, and moved westward along the front of the Wilipe`a. Several active entries can be seen in this and subsequent images. Lava also moved eastward from this spot to areas shown in above images. Beach in images of September 3 is buried below dark flow in lower center of image.

Lava pours off eastern front of Wilipe`a bench into oblivion. This is your last view of it before it turns into solid rock. Such a scene may be commonplace these days, but beauty is beauty no matter how often observed. 0524.

Two main streams, and three smaller ones, carry lava down fan on Paliuli from single source hidden above pali. Lava supplies sluggish `a`a and slabby pahoehoe flows that reach from lower part of fan onto coastal flat beyond. The change from yesterday's tube flow to this surface flow robbed lava from the inflating flow on flat. Consequently, the western side of the flow field is not growing this morning as it was yesterday. 0543.

East side of Wilipe`a bench showing how it is widening along the coast and covering part of a long black sand beach. Note steaming rocks on beach; waves broke them from bench and stranded them in swash zone.

Small channel of lava flowing down pre1995 sea cliff. This is small breakout from flow that feeds Wilipe`a entry. Such channels create drapery on the old cliff; such drapery from 1995 coats cliff right of active flow. 0619.

Active tip of narrow flow along west edge of Highcastle lobe, advancing toward coastline between Highcastle and West Highcastle benches. At time image was taken, lava was 130 m from top of sea cliff, which overlooks a narrow bench. Movement is sluggish (tongue has moved only 140 m since September 8), and new entry is not imminent. 0556.

View of Wilipe`a bench looking northeast, best seen in large image. Narrow flow, which sent arm down road, has built small fan across old sea cliff onto bench. Broad shiny flow east of small kipuka is main feeder for bench and has built fan mostly obscuring old sea cliff. Active part of bench is steaming and has built out from former smooth front of the July-early August version of the bench. Note how bench now extends northeastward, hugging coastline below dark kipuka in 1995 flows. Pre-1995 sea cliff, and cliff eroded into the 1995 delta, also visible. West Highcastle lobe and entry area active in July-August borders northeast side of kipuka, and, in distance across another kipuka, is snippet of Highcastle lobe and bench. In upper left is active western part of flow.