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New Zealand's Charleston #GlowWorm #Cave #Rafting #Adventure is a combination of #spelunking , floating on an inner tube inside a cave with millions of glowworms and river rafting. How did you like it? #NewZealand https://backpackandsnorkel.com/Hokitika/#charleston

#PalacesAndGardens #SecretSpace The Crystal Maiden (turned out it was male) in the Mayan cave Actun Tunichil Muknal in Belize. The skeleton is believe to be over 1200 years old. More in alt text. #EastCoastKin #Spelunking #Belize #Mayan

This is the skeleton of a 17-year old boy (first believed to be a female named the Crystal Maiden) who was killed by the Mayans and tossed in a sacrificial pit about 1100 years ago. To reach the cave, you have to swim or raft to reach the opening, then crawl through the cave. The cave is called Actun Tunichil Muknal (ATM Cave). More info through this link:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-crystal-maiden-of-the-actun-tunichil-muknal-cave-belize

#FOSDEM : Cave surveying - GIS with a Z-axis

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/WX8XEQ-cave-surveying/

Live stream right now: https://live.fosdem.org/watch/h1301

#caving #spelunking

What a trip this is! | PEAK

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Scorpion sounds | PEAK

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From one fall to another | PEAK

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First aid fail | PEAK

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I AM THE NIGHT | PEAK

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New Zealand's Charleston #GlowWorm #Cave #Rafting #Adventure is a combination of #spelunking , floating on an inner tube inside a cave with millions of glowworms and river rafting. How did you like it? #NewZealand https://backpackandsnorkel.com/Hokitika/#charleston

Thanks for joining me on PEAK stream collab. We finished the game but I died so many times. Still, puns and jokes were made so that is a win!

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Kazumura Cave

The ʻAilaʻau eruption is considered the longest memorable eruption of Kilauea.

(Before Pele, there was ʻAilaʻau (Ai means the ‘one who eats or devours.’ Laʻau means ‘tree’ or a ‘forest.’) ʻAilaʻau was, therefore, the fire-god devouring forests. When Pele came< she took over as fire goddess, ʻAilaʻau left.) (Westervelt)

The ʻAilaʻau eruption took place from a vent area just east of Kilauea Iki. The eruption built a broad shield. The eastern part of Kilauea Iki Crater slices through part of the shield, and red cinder and lava flows near the center of the shield can be seen on the northeastern wall of the crater.

The eruption probably lasted about 50-years, from about 1420 to 1470 AD. The large volume of lava covered a huge area, about 166 square miles (106,240-acres) – larger than the Island of Lānaʻi (140-square miles.)

Lava covered all, or most, of what are now Mauna Loa Estates, Royal Hawaiian Estates, Hawaiian Orchid Island Estates, Fern Forest Vacation Estates, Eden Rock Estates, Crescent Acres, Hawaiian Acres, Orchid Land Estates, ʻAinaloa, Hawaiian Paradise Park and Hawaiian Beaches.

The pāhoehoe flows did leave rather large kīpuka south of Keaʻau and in the forest southwest of ʻAinaloa, as well as small kīpuka in Hawaiian Paradise Park and elsewhere.

This eruption and lava flow may be described in the Pele-Hiʻiaka chant. Hiʻiaka, late on returning to Kilauea from Kauai with Lohiau, sees that Pele has broken her promise and set afire Hiʻiaka's treasured ʻōhiʻa lehua forest in Puna.

Hiʻiaka is furious, and this leads to her love-making with Lohiʻau, his subsequent death at the hands of Pele, and Hiʻiaka's frantic digging to recover the body.

The ʻAilaʻau flows seem to be the most likely candidate to have covered so much of Puna that they were worthy of commemoration in the chant.

The timing seems right, too - after the Pele clan arrived from Kahiki, before the caldera formed (Hiʻiaka's frantic digging may record this), and before the encounters with Kamapuaʻa, some of which probably deal with explosive eruptions between about 1500 and 1790. (USGS)

Reminders of past eruptions are lava tubes. Lava tubes are natural conduits through which lava travels beneath the surface of a lava flow. Tubes form by the crusting over of lava channels and pāhoehoe flows.

When the supply of lava stops at the end of an eruption or lava is diverted elsewhere, lava in the tube system drains downslope and leaves partially empty conduits beneath the ground. (USGS)

One such, as a result of the ʻAilaʻau eruption, is Kazumura Cave – it has been called the longest (over 40-miles) and (to some) deepest lava tube in the world and the deepest cave in the US. (Cultural Surveys)

According the Hawaiian Government Surveyors in 1891 (related to ‘The New Puna Road:’) “An interesting feature of this locality is the large number of lava caverns and long subterranean passages abounding upon it, especially between the 9th and 11th miles, in fact this whole tract is so thoroughly penetrated by caverns that hollow sounds are often heard beneath ones footsteps when traversing the region.”

“These subterranean passages are generally entered through some opening made by the falling in of the roof and prove to be regular arched ways, ranging as much as 25 feet in width and 15 feet high and extending for long distances.”

“The floors have that corrugated ropy appearance such as are seen on any viscid mass if drawn out as it hardens. The roofs and sides are covered with stalactites, the whole producing a wonderful effect when lit up.”

“These caverns evidently served as burial places in ancient and comparatively modern times in view of the fact that the benches here and there were covered in human remains.” (Cultural Surveys)

“Its average inclination was found to be 1.75 degrees, less in its lower section and considerably more in the upper sections. Passage cross-sections also were found to be different in the different areas.”

“While considerable local variation exists, its lower end tends to be wide and comparatively low while the upper section tends to be high and narrow. Locally, slip slopes and cut banks were found at sharp bends. Lavafalls up to about 15 m are numerous, especially in the upper sections.” (Halliday)

I have asked everyone who I thought should know who Kazumura was (the apparent namesake of the cave/lava tube.) Any insight into who Kazumura was/is appreciated.

#hawaii #cave #spelunking #geology #rocks #lava

Inside a cavernous lava tube in the ground. A person is standing in the distance with two skylights above them.

Lava tube cave drop with a person on a rope making the descent into a large cave room.

Map of kazamura cave, big island Hawai'i

New Zealand's Charleston #GlowWorm #Cave #Rafting #Adventure is a combination of #spelunking , floating on an inner tube inside a cave with millions of glowworms and river rafting. How did you like it? #NewZealand https://backpackandsnorkel.com/Hokitika/#charleston