This is what I saw when I climbed the 2847m Villarrica Volcano near Pucon in the Chillian Lake District. We could hear the rumbling of the lava below and when the noise came to a cresendo out it spurted. We could feel the heat as it landed on the side of the crater wall. The last major eruption was in 1971 which caused a 4km-wide fracture and emitted some 30 million cubic metres of lava.
BTW, I would just like to mention how much trouble it has taken me to upload this picture! Over 2 hours of messing about with online resizers and trying to install viewers and image editors on ancient and underpowered computers has finally resulted in this post. If I owned an internet cafe I would have nice fast computers with card readers and cd writers and…
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June 9th, 2006 at 10:36 pm
Nice picture… looks like it was worth the effort!
Maybe you should open that cafe to show everyone how it should be done
June 12th, 2006 at 8:19 am
i think thats the photo i printed off your cd!! maybe you should just send printed copies to everyone and then tell them when to stick it onto their computor screen…..that would save you the bother!!