Sakurajima

I found myself taking the ferry to the city midday last week, in order to pick up my keys from the police station (drunken foolery at the leavers party resulted in me losing my keys...) and Sakurajima began to erupt, as it so often does. Here are a few shots I took...

It still amazes me that I live in such a geologically unique place. When else in my life am I going to live just a few miles from active volcanoes and magical island rain forests?! Whatever the pitfalls are of living in Kagoshima (distance from all civilization, thick ash fall, lack of people under the age of 96...) the beauty of this place makes up for it. Most of the time anyway!