Clash of the Elements

After a one way 5-mile hike (8 km) on the lava field south of the island of Hawaiʻi, in Hawaii, nature puts on a show when lava from the Kīlauea volcano's 61g lava flow reaches the Pacific Ocean and creates a gigantic plume of hazardous volcanic gases (sulfur dioxide and hydrochloric acid) puncuated by regular explosions of lava.
big island, cliff, coast, escarpment, hawaii, hawaiʻi, hawaiʻi volcanoes national park, island of hawaii, kalapana coast, kamokuna lava ocean entry, landscape, lava field, ocean, pacific, pacific ocean, sea, shore, smoke, water
X-T20, 1/300 sec, f/13, 60.7mm, ISO 1600