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Eat-drink-read-sleep-swim. Repeat.
... if he was protecting us. But as soon as we started to settle in, he got protective of his beach instead. He barked at us for spreading out our towels and then barked whenever I picked up a rock. This turned into nonstop barking, so we decided to abandon this spot. We walked back to the sidewalk and went further up the beach. Ends up the doggie was doing us a favor: after 5 minutes of walking we found something called "Coral Beach": a refreshment stand and bar with ...
Pyrotechnics!
... fall down in a blanket of fire lining the left inside of the caldera. We were treated to quite a show; the middle crater took center stage for a while, then the rightmost crater repeated its fire and smoke show, and the rocket in the left crater took off several times. It was all completely unpredictable; we tried to find patterns but there was none we could discern. I spent some of the time taking photos then put the camera away so that I could more fully enjoy ...
Close Encounters of the Volcanic Kind
... to either create jets or a bubbler effect. The water is warm all over, with some warmer spots, and a few HOT spots that you find with your feet. After some initial exploring we settled into some beach chairs to have lunch. Very cool beach chairs: lounge chairs with awesome built in sun shades that double as very effective drying racks. Next to each pair of lounge chairs is an umbrella with a small round table encircling the pole. ...
Saints, Soccer, and Sweets
... European good-bye; he warmly held both shoulders and kissed both of my cheeks, and insisted on doing the same for Rob. I was pleased to bring my friend some great photos, a prayer card, and even more valuable: a great story. After St Bartholomew’s we wandered about the outside parts of the Eolian Archeological Museum. This extensive museum has eight buildings, each specializing in a different era; the buildings themselves are historical and they house objects excavated ...
The most active volcano in the world
The island is superb with black volcano sand beaches, the most active volcano in the world, fishing boats perched at the water's edge and a small population of 400 people.
Lots of history here and my guide advised that most of the people left in the 1950's when a butterfly pest came to the island destroyed most ...