Further adventures of the EAPSI group! 11 of us ventured over to the island of Java, Indonesia during the holiday weekend of Eid al-Fitr, the celebration of the breaking of fast. After a three hour bus drive, we entered a high-speed boat and sailed over the smooth Indian Ocean towards Krakatoa, a volcano that although from a distance looks small and quaint, boosts the reputation of having the highest growth rates of any volcano in the world (avg. 6.8 meters a year!). Besides its alarming rapid growth, Krakatoa deceives in it's size, as the other 'islands' surrounding its cone actually represent the flanks of it's original, much larger, life, before the catastrophic eruption in 1883.
The 1883 Eruption:
 A large, LARGE, chunk of coral that was washed up on the beach from the tsunamis created by the krakatoa eruption It is estimated that these tsunamis killed over 36,000 people. |  Edward Munch 'The Scream' 1893 is speculated to actually represent the effect all of the ash in the atmosphere from the eruption of Krakatoa had on how light was reflected. |
