Taste: pineapple guava-a small yellow round fruit pear and guava flavors and the gritty texture of the seeds within
Touch: light warm rock almost razor sharp
Smell: sulphur and sandalwood
Sight: lava, steam billowing, bright orange light flowing into the ocean, passing by land, moonlight on sea waves, a flash of fire; five small perfectly white seabirds; sparks; what would the native peoples think?; volcano fields, perfectly new land, creating new land, less than 40 years old, an island less than 3,000 years old; cerulean water in the Pacific Ocean; red spiny blossoms on shrubs with waxy leaves in the black volcano fields-ohi a lehua (man=ohi the bush and woman=lehua the blossoms); red spiny cylindrical sea urchins; red on a field of barren gray-black, shriveled ferns rising out of the cracks where seeds blow down from the cliffs into the basin around the volcano, Kilauea Caldera
Sound: the low constant hum of the ship's engine
Extra: "The smell of sulphur is strong, but not unpleasant to a sinner." Mark Twain visits Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii; "We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as out truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains." — Ursula K. Le Guin quoted in the introduction to Tin House Fantastic Women Vol. 9, No. 1
Touch: light warm rock almost razor sharp
Smell: sulphur and sandalwood
Sight: lava, steam billowing, bright orange light flowing into the ocean, passing by land, moonlight on sea waves, a flash of fire; five small perfectly white seabirds; sparks; what would the native peoples think?; volcano fields, perfectly new land, creating new land, less than 40 years old, an island less than 3,000 years old; cerulean water in the Pacific Ocean; red spiny blossoms on shrubs with waxy leaves in the black volcano fields-ohi a lehua (man=ohi the bush and woman=lehua the blossoms); red spiny cylindrical sea urchins; red on a field of barren gray-black, shriveled ferns rising out of the cracks where seeds blow down from the cliffs into the basin around the volcano, Kilauea Caldera
Sound: the low constant hum of the ship's engine
Extra: "The smell of sulphur is strong, but not unpleasant to a sinner." Mark Twain visits Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii; "We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as out truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains." — Ursula K. Le Guin quoted in the introduction to Tin House Fantastic Women Vol. 9, No. 1