After the short flight from Krabi in Thailand to Luala Lumpur yesterday, we stayed in a hotel near the airport ready for our flight home this afternoon. We spent the morning at the hotel pool getting some fresh air an exercise ahead of the 13 hour flight. Little did we know that on the other side of the world, a volcano with an unpronounceable name was spewing/belching/hurling (I loved how the newsreaders all seemed to enjoy using these words!) a vast cloud of hot ash into the atmosphere....We went to the airport and even got as far as getting on the plane - which then sat on the runway for 2 hours until the captain explained that we weren't going anywhere. He seemed to have been given a slightly alternative version of the risks involved; he explained that if we flew into the ash cloud, sulphur fumes could get into the plane's air system and poison us all. I'm not sure whether there's any scientific basis to this theory - and I never heard it mentioned again - but it did make us get off the plane in a hurry!
(The dates showing up in the information file for some of my photos are wrong because I fiddled about editing them on the iPhone and saved new versions, which seems to have deleted the original date; just in case anyone thought I was cheating!)
...never *did* or *would* accuse you of cheating, Helen! I'm looking at this as a photo-a-day of our choice...and that's my story & I'm sticking to it!
On another note, the water looks SO inviting!