The End of CSAV

Today Katie and I make the transition to the HVO guest house to begin our volunteering adventure, and the last of the other CSAV students leave for the airport. To mark this occasion, I thought I'd wrap up the past few weeks by posting photos that most of you haven't seen yet.
This is the Holo Holo In driveway - you can get a sense of the wild vegetation.

My bottom bunk (I've hit my head so many times - you don't even want to know).

This is the KOEC classroom down the street from the Holo Holo.

My charred burrito on lava day! I am so excited to eat this thing...

Our professor Chris setting up the seismograph on lava day. We didn't really get any high frequency events like we thought we would. There were probably too many helicopters messing up the signal.

Lava bon bons! Imagine rolling a snowball...except with hot, mushy lava.

Philippe and I after figuring out how to set up our static GPS station. We were so proud!

Annie and Dr. Don Thomas taking a gas sample from Sulfur Banks in the National Park. If we had inhaled the gas (poisonous amounts of CO2, SO2, and H2S) near the vent, we probably would have collapsed. I was the only one who had a gas mask (in case of an emergency), so I wore it only to scare the tourist's children. It was a fun time.

Katie, Karen and I in our touristy Hawaiian dresses!


Okay, that's it for now. If anyone wants to stay somewhere in Volcano, I highly recommend the Holo Holo In!