• Sandboarding Cerro Negro

    Once we got to the top of Cerro Negro

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    We had to get down

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    Before we blew away

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    Into the steamy crater

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    Which wouldn’t have been pleasant

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    The views from the top were good

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    You could even see Leon in the distance

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    Matt tobogganed down

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    Then Kerri tobogganed down

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    Slowly

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    Matt went slowly too

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    But Kerri messed up getting a copy of the pictures

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    So we’ll just pretend Matt whooshed so fast that they only got one picture of him.

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    And they only got video of Kerri


  • Climbing Cerro Negro

    This is Cerro Negro

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    It doesn’t look that impressive from most angles

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    But it’s an active volcano.

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    All covered in loose ash

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    And when you climb up it you can see all the other craters

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    The areas that aren’t volcanos are pretty flat.

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    The lava doesn’t flow very far.

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    The crater is colourful

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    It was very windy

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    And very ashy.

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    Matt’s phone decided he was the only important thing in this picture.

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    Kerri isn’t as important.

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  • Other El Cuco Wildlife

    Matt thinks this is the same bird as the other post.

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    He probably didn’t notice that there were multiple species of bird in that post

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    This one is larger and ibisy

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    Here you can see the itty bitty bird standing behind the big ibisy bird.

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    There are multiple species of bird in this post too.

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    The bird in the first picture is not ibisy

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    And these birds definitely aren’t ibisy

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    And these aren’t birds at all.

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    They are crabs.

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    These volcanos are not made by birds

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    They are made by snails.

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    When water gets in their holes they fountain it out, and the wet sand comes with it.

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    Goodbye.

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  • El Cuco Sunsets

    The sun set in El Cuco

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    Every night

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    We took a lot of pictures of it.

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    Because we needed photographic evidence

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    That the world was still turning

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    And spinning

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    Look, a selfie

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    This is a sunrise

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    Which is like a sunset

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    But backwards

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    They are harder to see, because you have to be awake.

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