Oliana Cottage Vacation Rental

07/01/2022

One of our more recent photos:

04/01/2022

03/06/2022

Discover Big Island's Puna district. Join us as we tour Big Island East side through Pahoa Town and down to the coastline along the Red Road. See the beauty ...

01/11/2022

The Hawaiian archipelago is amazing geologically. And it's all in the making!

11/20/2021

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11/14/2021

Did you know it's only about 5 miles from the gate on Chain of Craters road on the Kalapana side to get thru to the Sea Arch and petroglyph trail. Pretty easy ride on a good mountain bike. No shade but those cool ocean breezes!
One of lower Puna's hidden gems!

10/11/2021

10/10/2021

How much lava has filled Kīlauea's Halema‘uma‘u crater? If the Empire State Building, in New York City, was placed at the bottom of Halema‘uma‘u crater, we estimate the lava lake level could already be as high as the 70th floor!

For reference, the base of Halema‘uma‘u crater after the 2018 collapse was 517.4 m/1698 ft above sea level (asl). A water lake occupied the base of the crater from July 2019–December 2020, to a depth of 50.9 m/167 ft (equal to an elevation of 568.3 m/1865 ft asl). The water lake was evaporated when an eruption began in Halema‘uma‘u crater in December 2020. That eruption created a lava lake that reached a depth of 158 m/518 ft (equal to an elevation of 675.4 m/2216 ft asl) by December 23, 2020. By the end of that eruption in May 2021, the lava lake had reached a depth of 223 meters/732 ft (equal to an elevation of approximately 741 meters/2431 ft above sea level). The eruption that began on September 29, 2021, continues to fill the bottom of Halema‘uma‘u crater and by October 6, had reached a depth of 256.6 m/842 ft (equal to an elevation of 774 m/2539 ft asl) above the former base of the crater after it collapsed in 2018. For comparison, the height of the Empire State Building is 443.2 m (1454 ft).

USGS graphic by J. Bard.

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Erupts

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10/06/2021

Wow!

09/30/2021

07/28/2021

Hawaii

04/11/2021

Missing the Merrie Monarch Festival again this year. Video from the 2013 competition.

03/30/2021

Heads up on rental cars!

https://bigislandnow.com/2021/03/29/carmageddon-crashes-into-big-island-as-rental-industry-swallowed-by-mass-demand/

Anyone on the hunt for a rental car in Hawai´i is in for a disappointing month. At least.

03/23/2021

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02/27/2021

PUNA, Hawaiʻi - This Unoccupied Aircraft Systems footage is part of an expansive release by the USGS, which includes over a thousand video files that were recorded during the 4-month eruption of Kilauea on the lower East Rift Zone in the summer of 2018.

02/27/2021

The most active volcano in the world, Kīlaueua had been erupting for decades, but the next several months would be characterized by the volcano’s most explosive activity in centuries.

02/07/2021

01/04/2021

12/21/2020

Sunday evening 20 December 2020 around 09:30 pm HST lava vents inside the Halema‘uma‘u Crater, within the larger summit caldera of Kīlauea Volcano on the isl...

08/24/2020

04/22/2020

03/07/2020

Time to repost this magnificent photo of Waipio Valley.....

03/07/2020

Alaska Airlines and Southwest Airlines today launched a fare sale between California and Hawaii with roundtrip fares plunging to just $198 roundtrip. United and Hawaiian Airlines have also joined in this fare war. Less than $200 roundtrip to Hawaii is an incredible bargain, but you have to jump thro...

02/04/2020

PUNA, Hawaiʻi - During a recent After Dark at the Park talk, a USGS geologist explained why some residents living near the inactive fissures of 2018 are experiencing an increase in heat and steam.

01/31/2020

01/19/2020

A chemical analysis of lava samples taken during the 2018 Kilauea eruption confirmed theories that the eruption drew from magma deeper than previous eruptions.

11/22/2019

Fall has arrived - need a blanket instead of a fan to sleep at night!

11/03/2019

Oliana Cottage is a legal Hawaii hosted vacation rental. Hawaii GE and TAT tax ID numbers available on request.

07/30/2019

Enjoy!
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Now that Kilauea has erupted nearly all the lava in her system, it may be Mauna Loa's turn. The USGS recently raised the alert level for Mauna Loa from normal…

07/13/2019

Now that Kilauea has erupted nearly all the lava in her system, it may be Mauna Loa's turn. The USGS recently raised the alert level for Mauna Loa from normal…