Unprecedented experience, we are in New Zealand and decide to organize a helicopter drop off in the crater of a still active volcano.
The White Island is located at 50 km from the coast and its particularity is not only the fact that it is still active but also that it has in its center a huge lake of sulfuric acid.
The descent is impressive not easy to photograph the chopper moves a lot. The more we approach the ground and the more I have the impression to land on Mars. Sulfur is everywhere present and the colors of the ground between orange and yellow. In the distance fumaroles are those of the lake of sulphuric acid, we will go to the edge equipped with mask not to burn the lungs, a little further an old factory of sulphur abandoned following accidents.
We will learn that very soon after our passage the volcano entered in eruption while there were tourists making several deaths, the site thus had to still be modified and my photos will remain unique.
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