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White Island II

Tour of White Island Volcano crater. Thanks to Max and Carla for supplying some of these images.

Group taking notes

Ready to proceed


4 meter high sulfur mound

Watch your step; you'd break through the sulfur crust if you climbed on


Group with steaming crater in background

Let's hope it doesn't erupt


Sulfur deposits

Sulfur deposits surround steam vent


Hard-hatted group on slope

Group on internal slope


Steaming lake with vents behind

Crater lake - pH is about 1 !!!!


Steaming Lake

The lake's been rising


Hard-hatted students taking notes

There's a lot to take in


People walking down windy arroyo

Drainage channels eroded into ash


Students approach large sulfur vent

Looks amazing, smells amazing, too


View of sulfur vent

Sulfur vent


Students near vent

What to write?


Students walking across crater floor

Walking back toward the wharf


Ruins of sulfur mining works

Old sulfur works. Does this look like a scene from Riven or what?


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