Stu.
Ok so despite my previous declarations of lazyness and general unhealthy lifestyle I just couldn´t pass up the opportunity to poke lava with a stick.
Come on it´s not every day you get to play with molten rock now is it!?
This did mean we had to face a 2 hour hike up a volcano. Doh.
I´d love to say it wasn´t that bad but really the first 10 minutes could
have killed me! It did get better after that though and I took some small pleasure and manly pride in making it to the top without having to get what the guide was referring to as a "taxi" what he meant was a horse. Now riding up a volcano on horseback is a cool thing to do dont get me wrong and Gini partook in some cowboy style ascending. I however had developed a sense of what I am thinking as now as stupidity, then it was pride. So up we went, and 2 hours later we were standing near the top of the active volcano Pacaya and I got to poke lava with a stick. I was a happy man.
Guys if you think prodding a campfire or bonfire with a stick is manly (and lets face it, it is) then you really need to get some lava!! it´s a bit hot though. Some cool pictures.
Oh, another thing I wanted to let you know is that I have started looking at situations more from a "how good will this sound on the blog" perspective than from a nice and kind way to my fellow human beings way. The thing that led me to realise this was as we started to descend Pacaya it started to growl quite a lot (it did this quite often) and my thought process went something like this;
If Pacaya erupted and the fifty or so people that were on the top were killed in a lava flow, would this be worth the loss of those lives (people that I didn´t know remember!) so I could write on the blog that we narrowly escaped with our lives from an erupting volcano?
I blame you. I have been reduced to an uncaring monster in order to keep those of you who are nice enough or bored enough to read this blog entertained. ....or was I like this already?
I think I´m joking.
It would be a cool story though.
Ok so despite my previous declarations of lazyness and general unhealthy lifestyle I just couldn´t pass up the opportunity to poke lava with a stick.
Come on it´s not every day you get to play with molten rock now is it!?
This did mean we had to face a 2 hour hike up a volcano. Doh.
I´d love to say it wasn´t that bad but really the first 10 minutes could
have killed me! It did get better after that though and I took some small pleasure and manly pride in making it to the top without having to get what the guide was referring to as a "taxi" what he meant was a horse. Now riding up a volcano on horseback is a cool thing to do dont get me wrong and Gini partook in some cowboy style ascending. I however had developed a sense of what I am thinking as now as stupidity, then it was pride. So up we went, and 2 hours later we were standing near the top of the active volcano Pacaya and I got to poke lava with a stick. I was a happy man.Guys if you think prodding a campfire or bonfire with a stick is manly (and lets face it, it is) then you really need to get some lava!! it´s a bit hot though. Some cool pictures.
Oh, another thing I wanted to let you know is that I have started looking at situations more from a "how good will this sound on the blog" perspective than from a nice and kind way to my fellow human beings way. The thing that led me to realise this was as we started to descend Pacaya it started to growl quite a lot (it did this quite often) and my thought process went something like this;
If Pacaya erupted and the fifty or so people that were on the top were killed in a lava flow, would this be worth the loss of those lives (people that I didn´t know remember!) so I could write on the blog that we narrowly escaped with our lives from an erupting volcano?
I blame you. I have been reduced to an uncaring monster in order to keep those of you who are nice enough or bored enough to read this blog entertained. ....or was I like this already?
I think I´m joking.
It would be a cool story though.
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