Bart Bear's Blog

This is something that you don't see very often. There is steam coming out of the ground at the edge of the water. This is one of the hot springs at Savusavu in Fiji. The harbour at Savusavu is in the crater of a huge volcano, hopefully now extinct. Way back, it blew up and the sea flooded the crater. It must still be very hot, deep down under the town, because there are several places where boiling hot water bubbles out of the ground. In fact the locals use these hot springs to cook in. The spring in the picture is a small one, but as we walked out on the jetty to get our boat back to the ship we could feel the hot, damp air from the spring. I don't think I would like to live on top of an old volcano that is still hot. Those things are too unpredictable for cautious small bears.

Labels: Captain Cook, cruising, Fiji