Cerro la Carpa and the supermoon

This November's full moon was special: it was supermoon. A supermoon is a new or full moon closely coinciding with perigee (the moon’s closest point to Earth in its monthly orbit). It was also the closest a full moon has been to the earth since 1948 and it will not be as close to Earth until November 2034. It seemed like an excellent opportunity to celebrate and treat ourselves to a little adventure quality time out of the city, which was particularly needed as we had just worked through the entire weekend to meet a deadline.

Calbuco - 19 months on

Last year, Volcán Calbuco in the Los Lagos Region of Chile (about 1000 km south of Santiago, near the city of Puerto Montt) erupted in a spectacular manner. 210 million cubic metres of crushed rock of different sizes were spit as "ash" into the atmosphere, then blown some distance by the wind, before being deposited on the surrounding land.