It's not every day that you bump into a new island
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totopalm
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Re: It\'s not every day that you bump into a new island
How Fantastic!!
How Fantastic!!
Rustyknight
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That reminds me of a Hammond Innes book...... "The Strode Venturer" is the title. Very interesting read!
That reminds me of a Hammond Innes book...... "The Strode Venturer" is the title. Very interesting read!
AlJones
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Wow!!!!
Wow!!!!
Gunfleet
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Obviously they've never been in the Deben
Obviously they've never been in the Deben
Stemar
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Another vote for Wow!!!!
That's at least as close as I ever want to be to a volcano - nasty, dangerous things, just ask any Krakatoan!
Another vote for Wow!!!!
That's at least as close as I ever want to be to a volcano - nasty, dangerous things, just ask any Krakatoan!
Sans Bateau
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I want to go!
I want to go!
Lee_Shaw
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Amazing. Jammy gets.
Amazing. Jammy gets.
FullCircle
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Stunned. I want to go please.
Send your cheques to:
FullCircle
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Stunned. I want to go please.
Send your cheques to:
FullCircle
PO Box 1
Burnham On Crouch
Sybarite
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I was close to one.....
http://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/volc_images/europe_west_asia/surtsey.html
I took a student vacation work job in a fish factory in the Westman islands to the south of Iceland just a few months after the appearence of Surtsey about 10 miles away. We could clearly see the irruptions. There are now trees growing on it.
A few years after I left, Heimey, the volcano on the Westman Islands, irrupted and destroyed a significant part of the port. We had taken a midyear midnight picnic in its crater. Just got out by the skin of our teeth - on a geological timescale!
John
http://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/volc_images/europe_west_asia/surtsey.html
I took a student vacation work job in a fish factory in the Westman islands to the south of Iceland just a few months after the appearence of Surtsey about 10 miles away. We could clearly see the irruptions. There are now trees growing on it.
A few years after I left, Heimey, the volcano on the Westman Islands, irrupted and destroyed a significant part of the port. We had taken a midyear midnight picnic in its crater. Just got out by the skin of our teeth - on a geological timescale!
John
Sgeir
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When I was at school, 50s or 60s, there was a similar island appeared off Iceland, Sertsay or sumfin. Might still be there.
EDIT: Oops, not a real LakeSailor job, just didn't spot John's post /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
EDIT EDIT: That's an interesting link from Sybarite (says he, trying not to sound embarrassed....)
When I was at school, 50s or 60s, there was a similar island appeared off Iceland, Sertsay or sumfin. Might still be there.
EDIT: Oops, not a real LakeSailor job, just didn't spot John's post /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
EDIT EDIT: That's an interesting link from Sybarite (says he, trying not to sound embarrassed....)
ChrisE
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Re: It\'s not every day that you bump into a new island
Ahem you might just have been Lakesailored
Ahem you might just have been Lakesailored
Helina
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Just wonder if they claimed the island to be their property ?
Just wonder if they claimed the island to be their property ?
Lee_Shaw
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iangrant
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Fantastic - after a long time at sea it's pretty awsome when you first sight land but this - well
here's me sat behind a desk again - hmmmmmm - think, think, think, think,,,,,,
Fantastic - after a long time at sea it's pretty awsome when you first sight land but this - well
here's me sat behind a desk again - hmmmmmm - think, think, think, think,,,,,,
Phoenix of Hamble
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Amazing.... and what a privilege to have experienced something like that....
Amazing.... and what a privilege to have experienced something like that....
Dipper
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That book is on the shelf just in front of me. It certainly fits in with what the crew of the Maiken saw.
It took me a while to realise that the island they appeared to be beached on was an enormous floating heap of pumice. It must have been magical.
That book is on the shelf just in front of me. It certainly fits in with what the crew of the Maiken saw.
It took me a while to realise that the island they appeared to be beached on was an enormous floating heap of pumice. It must have been magical.
