White Island

And a couple of days ago visited the White Island, the only active marine vulcano in New Zealand. It was pretty impressive, but I would not define it like the very best thing one can do in NZ (like some people told me...). Here you go, welcome to the Moon!

Approaching the island with the boat:

Almost there:

There is actually a dolphin on the left side of the picture:

The crater is always smokey:

Posing in Darth Vader's style:

Lunar landscape:

The crater is huge:

Darth Vader again:

The sulphur was everywhere:

Old lava path from an old eruption (from year 2000 I think):

Volcanic ashes:

And now a couple of good looking panoramas of the crater and the island:

And now, a small video of the activity of the vulcano:

And the next entry I have no clue of what will be... Probably landscapes from the ferry Wellington-Picton (and the Malborough Sounds in the background...).