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"What is your final destination. I was asked to perform customs Antigua.
"Montserrat." I said.
After a long search my pockets customs agent said, 'You know that you are the wrong way to use? "
He had a smile he added: "Why would you go to see?"
As I handed over my passport, I replied: "To see the volcano erupting."
While my printed documents, shook his head and directed me in the boat.

The small volcanic island of Montserrat is part ofchain of islands in the Caribbean Sea Low, you start a geologically young archipelago constitute less than 50 million years ago. The volcano island has been suspended to continue for about four years, but everything changed in July 1995. Emerald Dragon awoke in a very strange feeling.

The outbreaks involved intense earthquake swarms. Steam explosion of the mountain by the rapid heating of water by the rising magma. In mid-November of that year, when the surface of magma and anew lava dome began to form. The lava of the volcanoes is known as a place duck Caribbean and is very hard, thick as honey. The area around the volcano vent, which is an umbrella organization that continues to build and collapse. When the dome collapses, it creates a pyroclastic flow, a flow of millions of tons of fragmented lava and hot gases that run down the mountain, destroying everything in its path. Speeds reach more than 100 – km / h and temperatures above 600 degrees Celsius,within it can not survive.

Due to violent eruptions on the island, two thirds of the forty square kilometers of land mass becomes unlivable. Called Exclusion Zone, enter without government permission and escort is illegal. A mass evacuation effort that moves about 8,000 of the 11,000 inhabitants. Most people seeking a better life on a nearby island of Montserrat, in England the "homeland". After learning that the Montserrat Volcanoconsidered one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world are flown on the island to admire the wildlife and ecosystems have responded to this destructive environment.

As a result of volcanic activity in Montserrat airport was broken, so I turned on the island ferry from Antigua. After climbing aboard the boat of 150 feet, I realize that there are only nine other people on the bridge. All of them were native Montserrat return after a day shopping in Antigua. These are some of the growingjust anger coming out of the volcano and refused to leave their homes.

The boat was a catamaran high-power, unlike a bridge, I saw. They transport people to and from the island twice a day and stay in case of evacuation, is when the sea allows him to do a couple of days when the sea swells too treacherous, the dock is not safe on Little Bay, Montserrat. Given the number beautiful boat to keep it in time to captain at full speed.

When leavingAntigua, I realized that if the United States that we would have at least 15 minutes of "security operation". I appreciated the 'use your "head of strategy, if you're not using your head, you want to swim. The sea was so rough, even some experienced travelers on for life. The splashing water and the heel of the boat to dig through the waves was very peaceful. Tired of traveling over 2,000 miles before dinner, I'm in a dream state. Thebright sun made it all a bit 'too sharp and clear. The crystal blue water and pulled the sweet smell of a relaxed Caribbean island of laughing gas a dentist.

In this part of world fish can fly. In small squads, have soared over the waves, like diamonds has jumped to the sea. And their wings were cut in a wave, as steep abyss mini kamikaze pilots. I thought Sunday little.rising circles around each of their little heads. In the distancesilhouette of Montserrat shows weak horizon. The reflection of water that the island is in the air, shook the volcano sky clouds obscured. When the ship approached the northern part of the 'island as "Safe Zones", lush trees, palms and aloes look at the whole island was like before the outbreak.

As for the islands of Jurassic Park and King Kong, a set of cliffs as menacing aura Montserrat protrusionCaribbean Sea. Its dense jungle vegetation hides an effect on most people uncomprehendable, a power far greater than Hollywood could ever dream done. When the ship stopped in the basin, a dozen people lined the shore awaiting return to the island by boat from Antigua. During a duty, I could not help but notice that everyone is equal and happy cold. The small bar, next to the size of the pavilion has been excellent with the name The Last Resort. It was fullcustomers to drink beer with a light tap-ping the hand with a mark of respect.

The last resort is owned and operated by a man named Moose. Moose staff consists of his lovely wife, plus his two children very well worn and laborious. Spear fishermen still wet when the day's catch. On most nights I watch the sunset on Moose and enjoy a delicious meal at home. While you eat a lot bigger, biggest,and more black and yellow spiders that scare acrobats rate drunk over my head. They always looked as if they were to fall on me, but never did. I was actually rather use them to be there and, lastly, the habit of respect. They were quite willing to accommodate their long legs astride my hand, but does not bite. Moose welcome spiders, as
its customers.

After passing through customs, I went with my friendMontserrat Emergency Department, and he gave me at the guesthouse. The island roads are cut off from the sides of mountains and all the cars, tires chirp as thin steep winding hills. My rented house next Saturday the governor's house, overlooking the Caribbean Sea to the borders of the "closed zone". On my return trip to the island I continued to live in the house. Apart from being a luxury home is logistically ideal. This beautiful placeis completely surrounded by forest, except for the display of the crystalline Caribbean Sea. This is the closest to the exclusion zone, overlooking the volcano back cover gave me a stiff neck. It 's like to sit in the front row of an IMAX film (which you can burn to death).

When I lay all my tools at home, I decided to go in the small town of Salem. This city lies in the shadow of the volcano and is considered part of the exclusion zone for some time, butrecently reopened. It 'been a matter of 3 miles in town and it was pitch dark, no streetlights, and this evening, even the moon. I quickly learned from experience that in many parts of the world, it is unwise to venture out after sunset. Montserrat is the exception, but has little or no crime. When the island had its evacuation, there were only eight prisoners in their jail. The police commissioner once told a small group of bank robbers that has captured. When most peoplethink bank robberies, we expect that people in Nixon masks showing the guns and the curse of the game. Not on Montserrat.

This is the way to rob a bank. When a cloud of fire their capital Plymouth, a number of them were also included banks. A small group of people who learned during the frantic evacuation of the city, one of the benches behind one million dollars in cash Uncirculated. So one night, they went to Plymouth, digging a tunnel through the ashes into hardbank, the stolen jewels. I think it might be lost to the facts, except that they were trying to get exchange money once in a casino in Antigua. Be Uncirculated bills were quickly caught the killers, so even the most crimes in Montserrat quiet.

Poor or a millionaire, all leaving their homes open their doors to the car unlocked, and nobody bothers you one thing. It 'was also a rule for their tragedy continues. I found that most residentsMontserrat is very proud of the people and the envy of the class has very little. As I went to Salem, I heard was the sound of tree frogs to a digital deafening. About half a kilometer from town, I had a projector on a machine to me at high speed. I was a bit 'more nervous than normally would have been due to the fact that there is more excitement in Montserrat, and no speed limit.

A Dark, massive creatures up from the weeds50 meters in front of me, gave the bike and.BLAM. The bike then crashed into the street. If the bike hit the pavement flying gas tank on the left side flew right seat and the driver body mandated shift to the center of the road. As soon as the dark creature appeared and disappeared. I am the man to help residents emerged from their homes to see what was happening. Totally incomprehensible to the event, I asked: What happened? … A Rastafarian man nextI said. Ya Mon, bulls, they do not like the sound of the bike, so when tax ..

The bulls returned to unleash started when most farmers have moved from the island. The bulls hate the sound of cars, and occasionally go head to head with them. The male is always off and the pilot flies away. Having identified the motorcyclist injured dusted, gave a tour of a local doctor who has examined. Later I discovered that he survived only a broken collarbone sufferedbroken wrist. I answered some of the residents on the scene, and invited me to a local pub called a couple of games Jimmo.s domino game. Domino's is a very intense game for them, almost a contact sport. The trust of their migration are more difficult than slam dominoes on the table. When I play with them, I always guess who the big winner of the day, because the table wreck leaned toward him from clapping so much.

Ingame, the men traded stories back and forth on the growth of 'island was not earlier, and their hopes for the future. They talked about when their ancestors were alive and the volcano as active as it is today. "You can see the light of burning magma from the volcano's cone. They will tell kids this is where Jack O'Lantern life and if you are poor, so he will run and take you away. Like many communities, children acting out of fear ofA higher power "boogieman". Perhaps there could be more to the story. Years ago, around Halloween four parts of the dome of the volcano collapsed, creating what looks like two eyes, a nose and a foot across the island glowed like a carved pumpkin.

I did yesterday after a man before the heavy outbreaks, decided to climb the volcano. He said he came to the cone was like a separate reality forward. Red, blue and orange fireballs would remain in the air, then shootden dart back and hover like angry ghosts. That bulb burns gas in the cone. At 6.30 the next morning I was awakened by what I thought was thunder. Still half asleep, I accept that a violent storm is over. And Richard, the owner of the house shouting: "Wake up, we have an epidemic?"

As a continual rumbling explosions high, I heard a second gun and my camera. After that I ran to the porch, I watched a20000 meters high ash cloud hanging over my head. As the hot ash and gas were fired into the sky, slowly blocking the sun. For the next half hour, I have pictures of spring, seen as the wind blow west, where it splashes down into the sea to the front of the house. Good morning! When the volcano settled, I went with the head of the emergency room to see that the path of pyroclastic flow taken. We found that flows burn its way out of the Tar River only at seajust missing the airport already devastated. The Tar River is one of the two most common ways of pyroclastic flows.

We wandered around the airport and saw the smoke rising from the arid land, where the flow has traveled. The airport was built on an ancient Indian cemetery Caribbean. Many people believe that the outbreak is indigenous to the punishment of such disturbing sacred ground. Afternoon Montserrat government invited me into the exclusion zone. It 'was a last minutedecision by the Commissioner of Police as a result of intense volcanic activity in the morning. Since the volcano island radio station regularly issues warnings, needs time to listen to the radio while the dangerous areas.

I remember the emotions I was fascinated by the area. Somewhere man killed, and will continue to have a feeling few people ever experience. No matter how much power, money or connections you have, is still a legend for antsvolcano and can be removed in seconds. It is human nature to become a success in the sense of control, but here, monitoring is not an option. Chief of Defense opened the gate and we went to an area outside the imagination. Life is visible only lost a couple of nervous dogs whose owners are forced to let go during the evacuation. Otherwise, it was deadly silent, a ghost town, even our cars still lined the ashes in the morning as if fresh snow.

Dead trees formtandestokkies struggling in a cast. A suffocating feeling about myself when I see that distort the ashes applied plants built, wilt and suffocated, unable to produce oxygen. Looking at the outer edge of a nuclear explosion, everything was intact, but there was nothing. The roofs of the once beautiful home is one million U.S. dollars in caving to the weight of the rain soaked ashes. Their satellite television has been reduced to only giant bowls of ashes. The playgrounds are empty. Only the sea wind whistledchildren's swing back and forth. Soul had left the country with his people.

When we stop beside the road, I realized that my driver's official radio station of the car go to a cricket match, instead of a local surveillance of volcanic warnings. If we get a eruption warning, we would never know it. But where we were going next, we would have no problem to know when a second outbreak is ongoing. For a short distance that we went through a drydead forest until we reached a cliff, and there are Soufriere Hills volcano. I smell the volcano, because it was leaking clouds of sulfuric acid gas from the mouth. In his presence, I felt that we should say or whisper. The words have no place here.

Boulders the size of school buses that poured from his side. Nineteen died here when farmers began to walk. I could barely see the levels where farmers have their crops by his side. I have no image problemThese people did tend to their fields shortly before the volcano have consumed them. On the left are the remains of all the villages covered by five to fifteen meters from the concrete so that only hardened after it rained. A local journalist next to me had tried to find where his home once stood. He could not find it. All sites when used to its property located in the past, now all over, or buried or burned away.

From there we went to Plymouth, the formercapital. From a distance of Plymouth, as the ancient ruins of a company left the area hundreds of years ago, with the exception here is, will future archeologists dig microwaves and cars, instead of pots and utensils. Plymouth was the center of activity for the whole island until 1995, when a pyroclastic flow down the volcano, forever destroyed in seconds. The church is only a shell of stone. Of all the waste at the altar is a brass bowlcast on it.

Most three-storey building as a single structure, as the two lower floors were eaten in ash and stone. I thought back to the people who lived there, and I wondered if they had an idea to mount directly on them would soon wake up, change or destroy their lives in seconds. Inside the pit was a small river that leads to the sea by rain affected the end of the volcano, with each new storm, the landscape changed. In an area of PlymouthA new "river" that runs through a cemetery, the dead sea. In some areas, small patches of grass struggling to exist in spite of difficult environmental conditions. Only basic level with a probability of survival. Long after a pyroclastic flow, one can probe a few feet into the pit and found it can have up to 600 degrees. After a stop in this city lost, we felt we had the luck far enough and decided to return to a safe bowls Sun With a more eyeful of the volcanoin my mind that we have.

Even with all the devastation caused by the volcano, I have no bad feelings towards them – just respect. There was a place that was not capable, stable and insensitive to life, but I did not want to leave. Standing next to nothing of such a brutal power and energy made me an adrenaline rush that can not be together. Now I can understand why many cultures worshiped volcanoes, consider their gods or God-like. They have power of life and death, asking for respect andcultivate fear. We ventured back to safe area, close the door securely behind him. While the security area, we came to a bridge that was washed by a mud slide. Originally little more than a bridge about 40 meters deep gorge. If rain mixed with volcanic ash, has been a landslide of mud that the river bed is full. It's about the bridge and the golf course adjacent demolished with ash and rocks, leaving the surface of the moon appears. Autility truck is submerged up to its windows in the dried mud and stones.

The next morning I turned on a small hill near the volcano to look for the endangered Montserrat Oriole. This bird lives only on Montserrat and its people are impoverished due to loss of habitat for agriculture, the Hurricane Hugo and three strikes, volcanic activity. Some estimates say that over 76% of their habitat destroyed. Most losses were concentrated in Ghaut (FrenchCanyon), prime habitat for the golden oriole and essential for their survival. This is a realistic scenario with a continuation of the outbreak, it is possible that a viable population of over 50 years of survival. There is a 50:50 chance of total collapse within 10 years to 15 years. The day was dark and drizzly. A thick layer of cottony clouds covered the mountain, and hanging from the front of the volcano, like a theater curtain. Thick foliage of the jungle in possession of rain during the night the storm passed and thedumped on me as I tissue through the rainforest.

The life of a small hill of green ferns and moss, I heard a sound of chirping birds and waterfowl. I slowly across the knoll and looked unnoticed between two ferns, which I split with my hands. A crystal mountain stream pouring over the jagged rocks in a small pool surrounded by a thick carpet of moss. The black soil in contrast to a dark frame around the moss, while the level of the roots of various plants keep the soilAs long fingers. Pink flowers hung over the bath and leaves as the hand, catch the droppings just cascade. A black and yellow Heliconius butterflies fluttering among the flowers. And 'landed on each of the flowers, they weigh enough to cause the flowers do not like empty cup. Tiny mistakes easily skimmed the water surface. It was hard to tell if they are flying and sometimes touches the water, or were swimming and sometimesraised from the water. Tiny "unknowns" in ferns cause turbulence shaking the leaves, as if the whole plant was still chuckling. I keep my stomach open, hidden among the ferns, hoping to glimpse a drink or a bath Montserrat Orioles to the prisoner. I see and hear.

The next time you are around a roaring stream, listen. You will be able to beat all the musical notes to hear that the game together. And unlike an instrument, playing every note at a time, alwaysappeal to those around them. Within minutes a number of birds that seem dressed for a parade of Mardi Gras, slid down from the trees too bad. When preened feathers on the outer edge of the pool, a buzz filled the air. Then out of the forest morning mass, a hunt for a hummingbird flowers, and fastest in its beak with the precision of a surgeon.

The restaurant's name is Dr. Bird, but is widely known as a purple throatDear. This bird is very bright to see black with purple, blue green metallic green tail and wings. To ensure that its "clothes" fierce, must conserve energy. With a brain the size of a grain of rice, while the 5 cm "Liberace" must remember to never go back twice for the same flower. Vital energy wasted on an empty flower, a hummingbird variable dead.

When you've finished drinking from the flowers, it has my face and hovered in the air. Like a disco ball, hasrotated, reflected the balls of the waterfall mist gathered about him. After a short pause, hovering towards me and although the rain like a tracer bullet psychedelic rainforest. When the hummingbird flew out of sight, boom! The volcano has erupted! Roaring explosions one after another as an attack aircraft dropped bombs on a target.

I jumped out of ferns and rushed down the mountain. The struggle to stay on the narrow road, I startedStumbles on sharp rocks and slipping on moss. Within five minutes (probably a new world record) I was out of the woods and in a small area along a dirt road. I look at the sky and see a cloud of ash 20,000 feet high. Identical to the mushroom cloud of an atomic bomb, he grew up in the air like its hot zone "root" agitated and shouted in the ground. How outburst of a mythical god of lightning and clap of thunder from the cone vibrated the ground.

During atemperatures above 6000 degrees, the explosion was so great that it immediately got his system. Before the outbreak, it was drizzling. First outbreak volcano produced thunder and lightning. A few minutes later, it became clear ideal beach weather. The sun and the only visible cloud in the sky was rooted in the soil, and has more than 30,000 feet high. Although it seemed a perfect climate, wildlife knew something else. Not a bird chirped, or a seedcroaked. I started jogging in Salem, as the plume thickens and begins to block the sun. If waved above my head, the temperature dropped about ten degrees, and eclipse the church. Then it began to rain, water, but rocks and ash.

The first ash falling. 'S so beautiful that not even aware that the fallen, but makes your eyes itch, as you have a fight. He fell seriously as melting snow black ash that is not so. I put my mask on his face and continuedtrot. A teacher of this small filter mask to take with you anywhere in Montserrat. Breathing volcanic ash can cause silicosis, also known as black lung. The severity of ash mixed with rain beginning, but it was not a normal rain, it was sulfuric acid. Valves sulfuric volcanic gases in the atmosphere. So while in the atmosphere, hydrogen sulfide and sulfur dioxide are mixed and subjected to a series of chemical reactions, possibly combined with water, sulfuric acid, which produces largeacid rain.

Acid rain Montserrat is so concentrated and intense that it is mainly the effects of acid rain studies. Acid rain is very Montserrat different habitats, including coastal mangroves, semi-desert vegetation and rainforest. Acid rain affects plants in the distribution of lipid membrane and protect their leaves, which leads to their death. Soon the entire block out the sun, and the city was black as night. The onlysounds of car horns were honking and "gossip chilling Ash on car windshield scratch on their windows. I have a small shop in Salem, where I waited for years and some of the natives. A man said:" Ahh, tis I.re Mon, tis Nuttin '. Translation "Ahh, this is the right man, is nothing." It 's been a common occurrence for them and they seem rather annoyed at the volcano more afraid thanx. When the ash began to falltoo thin, I made my mask on his face and he hit back at home.

Later that evening I discovered the volcanic acid rain, metal clips rotted my boots. So are corroded my arm, so I acid rain, dive watch measures resulting from the merger. The volcano is a preponderance of power and inner beauty Montserrat shadows, but contributes to the charm of the island. It is a microcosm of how people can work together in a time of great devastation anddespair, and yet happy, helpful, friendly and attentive.

The positive side of the volcano on the island has remained free of annoying tourists respectful. There is only a white sand beach on the island and a man just come out with a mile walk up a hill or boat. I have my paradise, spending whole days diving in the coral reefs to see thousands of fish school and the occasional passing shark, so Pluising on the white sand without ever seeingAnother human soul. It took me Hideaway and return as much as possible my life. If you ever want to see how life should be lived to receive visits the.Emerald Dragon., Then I wonder if I was not on the beach, make sure Moose.

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