Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Last Day in San Jose

We decided we would travel to the local volcano. Another great breakfast, these buffet type breakfasts can set you up for the day. We walked our usual half hour to the bus station, there are so many bus stations here. The bus was to leave at 830 am It was a 3 hour bus trip again to Vulcan Poa, and on the way the obligitory stop at the relative's shop for food and souveniers. We left the bus and hiked through the very dense tropical forest to an old caldera which had filled with water and was very similar to the Blue Lake at Mount Gambier. We took a few pictures, yet to be published. I have at least put them on a DVD, which took well over an hour, but we are in Costa Rica, and would you believe the internet place we are adding this has very old PCs which won't read the DVD.. Bah!!!..
We hiked onward to the crater and at 2708 metres or 8883 feet for you oldies, (no snow like the other travellers in Europe) we reached the lip. What a view. An active volcano. All that was happening today was there were a couple of treams of sulphurous fumes pouring skyward and there was also a lake which must have been very acidic, which was boiling in a couple of places and plumes of steam were rising. Clouds flowed over the mountain top and it started to drizzle, then there were brilliant flashes of lightning and deafening thunder, almost instantaneous and then it rained and rained and.... well it was a tropical downpour. We moved as quickly as the cloud and torrential rain would let us until we found the cover of the information centre.
We caught the bus and headed back to our accommodation

1 comment:

steve and sue said...

So you are getting something better than dripping on bread for your supper then? Keep the blog coming!