toasted

Having three days in a row sunny weather is unusual for here - we are a lucky bunch of people! After that day yesterday we slept in until 8:20, breakfast was at nine and around 10 we started for another trip to lava from 2012s eruption. It was again a splendid day with a lot of laughter, interesting conversations and heaps of information about volcanos. It is so sweet, Anja, one of the translator, has just been working for the company for some days and all information about volcanoes and the eruption she gets from Vitaly (pronouncements is on the ‘a’ not the ‘y’, second last vocal is pronounced in Russian) Anaway, all she has to translate is new for her, too, and she is very amazed and fascinated like we are and that is so good to see. She listens attentively and then says, oh wow, interesting and then translates. It is so co to see that also our guides have fun. Vitaly is amazing and takes very good care of us, showing us spontaneously alternative routes to go down one of the cones. He never could have done it before with tourists because of weather. We went also to a spot on the lava field where you could see lava two years ago. Nowadays it is still hot enough to toast some bread. Delicious. We only were out for three, four hours, enjoying those amazing views. We went in another gave under the lava, where the magna made is way out and became lava, too. Fascinating the different colors of rocks, those formations, the different weight of the stones. I can understand why studying volcanology. Back at the camp we had lunch and then we were sitting around, talking and then again having diner. Larissa is one amazing cook. I was seated next to Tony, the vet who specialized in birds. The most common disease birds have in Australia is Chlamydia. Not the one that is sexually transmitted that I know in humans but a genotype that birds have and is transmitted from bird to human (or bird to bird) per aerosol, tiny little particles in the air, and treated by doxycycline. Tomorrow we have gonna spend the morning in the car on the way to Esso. There we are looking forward to a shower before having another five nights in the tents and three volcanos to climb up! Lucky me!Read more