Aloha

For reasons that will probably never be known I started this blog in the 4 days between the end of the AP Calculus reading and the start of my vacation. So I'm on vacation right now and not doing much math (unless you count calculating the tips on all the restaurant bills).

Meanwhile some pictures from Hawai'i. They have lots of different flowers here. Here's one called Queen Emma Lily. There are so many flowers here you can actually smell them in the air as you walk around.


Then there are the beaches. Many, many great beaches with clear cool water. This one is is Po'ipu on Kaua'i.




And new things to see. The final shot is from the rim of the caldera of the Kilauea Volcano on Hawai'i. The volcano is active. To give you an idea of the scale, the rim of the caldera runs across the center of the picture. The black floor is about 300 feet down from the rim. The depression in the background is the Halema'uma'u crater; it about 1/2-mile wide and 1.75 miles away. The far wall (horizon) of the caldera is 2.5 miles away. The gas being vented from the volcano and causing the cloud is Sulfur Dioxide, SO2, in the amount of 2,000 to 4,000 tons per day. It causes Vog. Vog is smog caused by a volcano. Unfortunately, like smog, vog is unpleasant.




So Aloha for now. I'll be back to math next week, but right now I Have to deal with this Mai Tai that my wife of 30 years and one day made me.