It hardly seems like two and a half years has passed since I first fell headfirst into virtual Vesuvius and got the idea to make these volcano vacations a weekly ritual. Since then, I have been playing hide-and-seek in the world’s volcanoes, perhaps inspired by Carmen Sandiego or perhaps by Waldo/Wally, trying to evade the…
THIS is what I mean when I say a volcano is “volcanoey”. It is wide at the bottom, has a hole at the top, and has flanks covered in lava flows that I could not have sculpted more perfectly myself with my spoon in a mound of mashed potatoes. But unlike my mashed potatoes with…
This volcano, according to his name, is “the baby”. This is the view from inside his caldera. In the foreground there is a large lava dome.
After four days in the frozen north, I was once again ready for a warmer and a bit more hospitable place. This island volcano is certainly that. Not only is it warm and scenic and volcanohead-friendly, but it is also around four-centuries-long restive and Google-Streetcam-friendly..so there will be lots of postcards this week. This, of…
I have passed by this volcano several times while flying around the virtual globe, and decided it was high time I chose appropriate transportation and dropped in. Unfortunately, the current virtual landscape is a bit too wintry, so I timewarped back to July of 2004 to get a snow-free caldera, because with its various maars,…
As much fun as it is to get acquainted with a volcano by diving headfirst into its summit vent, a volcano like this one deserves to be first admired from the ground. She’s tall….falling a little less than 200 m from being as tall as Etna. She’s also obviously very active….but not as active as…
Arriving at this volcano, I was worried the landing zone might be icy due to the altitude, but it was not. Here is a view over the summit caldera, whose rim can be seen to the left. On the right is the central cone.
