Nice piece. It's always eerie standing atop or near an active volcano. I remember the Mount St. Helens eruption well. I visited Santorini two summers ago and was standing with a group of about 20 people on a lookout waiting for the sunset and staring into the caldera. I remarked that it was amazing that nearly an entire island was blown miles into the atmosphere some 3,000 years ago and sent a 500-foot-high tsunami toward Crete that wiped out the Minoan Civilization and ended the Bronze Age. Everyone looked at me puzzled and said, "We're standing on a volcano?" Yes and Ugh.