Landed – White Island

There is no formal jetty at White Island where visiting boats can tie up – a history of eruptions has put paid to that.  Instead, the collapsed ruins of an old jetty provides the landing-place.  Galvanised pipes, now corroded from the sulphurous fumes, bolted to the fallen concrete structure offer hand-holds for landing passengers as the step from bobbing rubber dinghies.  At the nearby beach a white sulphurous stream created by the fumarole in the crater trickles into the sea.

Sony Alpha DSLR – A200, 1/80 sec, F16, ISO 100, Sigma DC 18-200mm lens at 18mm

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