2012, a set on Flickr.
I thought the last day of January was too late for reviews of last year, but I found another such a post by someone in my Google Reader only today. So here goes... With so much gadding about to different places last year, I only managed to whittle it down to 45 piks.
Read more...It turns out that bubbling rock [Volcanoes National Park] is a lot hotter than bubbling water [Yellowstone National Park]. The former is apparently 2000C! I feel quite stupid for not realising there is such a big difference. It is quite weird (see yesterday's weird pictures) to see evidence of rock being a liquid. The really hot bit was some way below the surface of the crater pictured here, but the orange glow becomes apparent at night. The volcanic cloud is made of all sorts of dangerous stuff (e.g. glass), and they close different bits of the park depending on which way the wind is blowing.
only bigger and weirder.
I hope to blog more pics from our trip later, but after so much aeroplaning (Took off Saturday morning from Newark and landed Monday afternoon in Japan), it seems like a good time for some aeroplaney photographs.
I thought this was a bit like a body plugged in to life support.
On my recent travels, more than one person wondered why I was bothering to carry a camera in New Jersey. [Americans are like that - they make personal comments to strangers as a form of social oppression - to force them to regress to the mean.] Princeton and Rutgers universities are 17 miles apart, and not precisely identical.
Princeton University
It is astonishing the extent to which Americans wear their hearts upon their sleeves.
On the weekend we did neither astronomy (Mauna Kea) nor climate (Mauna Loa), but geophysics instead (Volcano Natl Park). But that huge flat mountain in the distance is Mauna Loa.
Visiting Princeton University today. It's a theme park of large pseudo-old buildings placed in a very large field which is randomly criss-crossed by little paths. It should greatly confuse the archaeologists of the future, but at least the buildings are warm and spacious inside. However - outside it's like Manchester in November. Pizza for lunch not as good as Tokyo. So that's all the important stats for the day. I am missing all the warm, fuzzy animals of Hawaii, so will cheer myself up with these...
Native peacock - you can tell it is native cos it wasn't in a cage.
Cute monkeys are everywhere on Oahu. The tufted great apes are ubiquitous - the little malnourished ones leap and swim in the ocean, while the big fat ones lie beached on the shore. In the trees, however, other species can be found:
Not all the fluffy aminals in Hawaii are quite as cute as they first appear.
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