A YACHT sailing out of Vava’u motored into a strange “sea of stone” on August 12, and the following day its crew became possibly the first people to witness the birth of a new volcanic island that has been forming in Tonga.
The crew of the yacht ‘Maiken’ have recorded their observations on a web blog along with photos of the pumice rafts that they came across a day out of Neiafu while sailing towards Fiji.
Full story:
http://www.matangitonga.to/article/tonganews/natural_events/tonga_eruption_081106.shtml
Fotos:
http://yacht-maiken.blogspot.com/2006/08/stone-sea-and-volcano.html
