St Vincent Erupts :-(

in #adventure3 years ago (edited)

So sad to see this. Such lovely people who have had such a tough year already. We just spent a beautiful couple of month recently exploring Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and they were just ramping up the warnings for an explosive eruption when we left as there was a effusive magma cone building up on the top of the mountain while we were there (and they had shut the crater hike and had everyone on evacuation alert).

Hope these three early explosive eruptions are the end of it for them and not a precursor to something bigger. I guess we can now add dodging exploding volcanos to the dodging of hurricanes, tornadic waterspouts, border closures, quarantine, lockdowns, and general pandemic induced chaos of the past 12 months. You can read about the eruption here.

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The drone footage from Cumberland Bay in the last video I posted (see below) was taken just over 6 nautical miles from the center of the volcano.

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If this is true this is a whole nother level of fucked up.

Hmm. hopes its not.

Wow!
What amazing footage and super impressive sailing across the world with 3 small kids.

A very special family experience.

How long have you been doing it?

Yes it is quite a different lifestyle. We have been living on the boat for about 18 months now.

I have been contemplating it and also have 3 little kids (and 2 big ones).

You've shown that its possible through the toughest conditions and your kids look great and independent. A huge gift to their future. Your son's confidence is amazing.

90 days in crazy lockdown must have been hell, but you survived it.

I am ashamed of Australia's behaviour towards its citizens overseas. Doubly so because I know some of the guys in charge.

Do it if you get the chance. Life is much shorter than we as humans tend to acknowledge. People get trapped in the mundane and their own feelings of self construed importance in their narrow structured environments. They miss out on the subline side of what the world and this life has to offer.

I have a couple of other videos up on 3speak if your interested (not sure if you have seen them) (https://3speak.tv/user/intrepidphotos). I don't normally put personal photos/videos up, they are shot mostly as memories for us, but thought people might like to see them. I have a few more videos shot that I have to edit up also from Antigua and Barbuda.

Also a post from a while ago about what it has been like for us in the first year. I assume you have seen some of it as you know we were locked down for 90 days.
https://peakd.com/hive-194913/@intrepidphotos/one-year-at-sea

Not sure if you have read Wanderer by Sterling Hayden. But I will leave you with a quote from it to motivate you. It was written in 1962 but seems more relevant now than ever.

To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. Otherwise, you are doomed to a routine traverse, the kind known to yachtsmen who play with their boats at sea... "cruising" it is called. Voyaging belongs to seamen, and to the wanderers of the world who cannot, or will not, fit in. If you are contemplating a voyage and you have the means, abandon the venture until your fortunes change. Only then will you know what the sea is all about.

"I've always wanted to sail to the south seas, but I can't afford it." What these men can't afford is not to go. They are enmeshed in the cancerous discipline of "security." And in the worship of security we fling our lives beneath the wheels of routine - and before we know it our lives are gone. What does a man need - really need? A few pounds of food each day, heat and shelter, six feet to lie down in - and some form of working activity that will yield a sense of accomplishment. That's all - in the material sense, and we know it.

But we are brainwashed by our economic system until we end up in a tomb beneath a pyramid of time payments, mortgages, preposterous gadgetry, playthings that divert our attention for the sheer idiocy of the charade. The years thunder by, The dreams of youth grow dim where they lie caked in dust on the shelves of patience. Before we know it, the tomb is sealed.

Where, then, lies the answer? In choice. Which shall it be: bankruptcy of purse or bankruptcy of life?

Sterling Hayden, Wanderer, 1962

Continue doing a great job dodging things :O

Hope the volcano is just being grumbly and goes back to sleep :S

Continue doing a great job dodging things :O

Ha I will try to. Have also narrowly avoided two Tsunamis (SEA and Japan) and a few bushfires over my time. Sailboats are good for moving on when things turn pear shaped.

As for it going back to sleep yes we all hope so; but seems unlikely for a few days more at least.

Your life is a little bit too exciting for me x_x lol

lol; I am sure you would love it once you got out ;-)

Coldest I've been was snow in Melbourne and that was way more than enough XD

I see there was snow just outside of Melb yesterday?

I could look that up and find out, I'm on the other side of the country and generally oblivious to anything unless it crosses my radar for some reason (usually if I happen to catch it when passing by when the tv is on news or if it appears on one of my feeds or if someone tells me). We did the snow thing one year when we traipsed over there to visit relatives.

Double rainbow 🌈