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Category Archives: Volcano
Nerdvana Part II – the Rest of Middle Earth
Continuing on with our LOTR tours in New Zealand…if you haven’t seen Part I which is pretty much all about Hobbiton you should start there. Weathertop (Amon Sûl) Unfortunately the hills used for the attack on Weathertop are deep in private property – it is not really possible to get Read On..
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More Isabela – Sierra Negra Volcano
We’ve seen a few volcanoes since we’ve been traveling. From hiking up one in St. Eustatia, playing in the mud in the Cold Soufriere in Dominica, sailing over the Kick’em Jenny underwater volcano between Grenada and Carriacou (OK, we didn’t see that one), the Grand Etang in Grenada, sailing by Read On..
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Our First Volcano
Are we nuts? That thing looks freaking huge! Today we climbed a volcano. St. Eustatius is a volcanic island, with two volcanoes that eventually merged their flows to form the island. The taller, single cone is called “The Quill”, the name of which is a mangling of the Dutch word Read On..
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