Well the day has come and Ed and I are preparing for our ascent of Vulcano.

Vulcano is 501 mtrs high and an active volcano. We were well prepared with climbing boots and back packs containing, food, 2 ltrs of water and some extra wind chill clothing. The clothing proved unnecessary as at 501 mtrs its still pretty hot up there. Bill dropped us off via tender at a small tender pontoon and Ed and I set off.

The walk is tough, but easily manageable and many children and elderly people were seen of the way. We arrived at the crater rim within an hour, had a rest and then proceeded to the summit and a walk around the entire crater rim. A fantastic experience looking down into the crater and walking through spurting sulphur clouds, which bubbled and spurted sulphur to the surface.

Fantstic views and well worth the effort.

 

We arrived at the sulphurous island of Vulcano at 17:00 and anchored in 3.6 metres of water, approximately 200 metres from the black pumice beach.  The bay we decided on was Porto di Ponente, seen above. This bay is to the North East side of the island, with the main ferry port literally the other side. The holding was good and we found no problem anchoring at our first attempt. Wonderful views of Vulcano, with its steaming sulphurous vents. There is however no smell of sulphur in this bay, this is left for the opposite bay, where the mud baths lie.

And so we settled for the night, which was comfortable with minimal rocking, even though we were beam on for part of the night.

The plan was to concur Vulcano the next day.