Mt Mayon volcano - Mayon volcano basic information and location
Mayon, one of the country's 22 active volcanos
Date/Time: Mon 24 Sep 2007 07:22:03 AM PHT
Mayon, one of the country's 22 active volcanos in the Philippine islands and is one of the most active volcano in the Philippines. Since 1616 until todate, Mayon has erupted 48 times including last year's - 14 July 2006 - eruption. The beautifully symmetrical Mayon volcano rises to some 2460 meters. Height varies in different sources - of course - each volcanic activity changes the height somewhat.
Mt. Mayon volcano - brief overview of Mt. Mayon volcano activities
Mayon volcano - always gently smoking
Date/Time: Mon 24 Sep 2007 07:24:31 AM PHT
The volcano has a few periods of up to 20+ years of silence - but Mayon volcano often has periods of frequent almost annual volcanic activities - from 2000 till todate 7 activity periods. Hence Mt. Mayon volcano certainly is a live volcano and had repeatedly disastrous eruptions with numerous casualties and destruction of larger areas due to lava flow, lahar, ashes, etc. with up to 17 km high eruption column. The most fatal eruption was on February 1, 1814 and buried the entire town of Cagsawa - see the photo album from the Cagsawa ruins for more details.
Mayon volcano dimensions
Mayon volcano's size
Date/Time: Mon 24 Sep 2007 07:27:40 AM PHT
Mt Mayon volcano height 2460 meters, base diameter: 20 km, base circumference: 62.8 km including villages Camalig, Malilipot and Sto. Domingo. Mt Mayon volcano covers an area of approx 314 km2 - estimated from 62.8 km base circumference.
Adjacent Volcanic Edifice: Mt. Malinao, Lignon Hill and Balong Gloria Hill
Mt Mayon location - Mayon volcano amidst a beautiful nature scenery
Mt Mayon Region V Bicol, province Albay - Philippines
Date/Time: Mon 24 Sep 2007 07:28:39 AM PHT
Mt. Mayon - Bicol region, Albay province, outside Legazpi City, some 320 km southeast of Manila - Philippines.
Google map for Mt. Mayon volcano area
Mt Mayon nature neighborhood
Beautiful agriculture fields
Date/Time: Mon 24 Sep 2007 07:28:08 AM PHT
Ricefields, vegetable and blossoming flowers - a beautiful volcanic vegetation, lush tropical green surrounds the entire Mt Mayon volcano region.
Nature scenery on the sloop of Mayon volcano
Living integrated in beautiful nature - living in Bicol's beautiful scenery
Date/Time: Mon 24 Sep 2007 07:28:54 AM PHT
Life certainly is cheaper here on the sloops of Mt Mayon volcano than elsewhere - who among the rich ones would invest in a home that might be gone next month after a volcano eruption.
Mayon volcano early morning - almost naked
To make pictures of naked Mayon volcano you need to get out very early morning
Date/Time: Mon 24 Sep 2007 07:36:55 AM PHT
Mayon volcano most of the time is hidden in dense clouds - well dressed to hide in his shyness. Only in nights and very early morning will you see the entire mountain - later after about 7-8 AM more and more clouds build up and soon entire Mt. Mayon is fully dressed.
Mt Mayon direct neighborhood
Beautiful green, palms, bushes and younger trees
Date/Time: Mon 24 Sep 2007 07:43:04 AM PHT
In direct vicinity of active Mayon volcano you never may find truly old trees - but nature in tropical climate is powerful and within years and the few decades between major eruptions a dense and beautiful healthy vegetation grows.
A volcano in your backyard
Life with a volcano in your backyard
Date/Time: Mon 24 Sep 2007 07:43:15 AM PHT
Thousands of people live within direct vicinity of the volcano and thus within the danger zone of the active volcano.
Air pollution by Mt Mayon
Imagine your neighbor always has an open fire smoking into your bedroom
Date/Time: Mon 24 Sep 2007 07:47:02 AM PHT
Mt. Mayon's steady smoking can be smelt many kilometers away if the wind blows in your direction.
River bed from earlier lahar flow
The blessing of a high volcano is the source of water later on
Date/Time: Mon 24 Sep 2007 07:49:47 AM PHT
High mountains become sources of water for the entire neighborhood many kilometers away. In addition lahar flowing downhill brings future construction material to the region. Lahar river beds are exploited and emptied of all useful material left over from previous eruptions. Lava stones, black sand and more can be used as cheap construction material.
Fast recovery of nature after a volcanic eruption
Abundance of rain add to the fast growth of low vegetation on Mt Mayon after eruptions
Date/Time: Mon 24 Sep 2007 07:49:53 AM PHT
The direct slope of Mt Mayon already is covered again with fast growing green vegetation after last years eruptions.
Most beautiful volcano cone - Mt Mayon
The world's most beautiful volcano cone - Mt Mayon volcano
Date/Time: Mon 24 Sep 2007 07:53:15 AM PHT
Mt Mayon volcano often is called the worlds most beautiful volcano cone for its perfect cone shape. Despite the frequent eruptions Mt Mayon has maintained all around a perfect cone shape.
Beautiful countries have beautiful volcanoes - may be everything is more beautiful than elsewhere ?? Try to find out yourself why I love to be guest in this most beautiful country for the past 7+ years ....
Fertile soil on the sloops of an active volcano
A strong and healthy lush vegetation grows around all Philippine volcanoes
Date/Time: Mon 24 Sep 2007 07:54:22 AM PHT
Volcanic soil contains all the minerals and fertile ingredients a growing nature loves - hence all vegetation grows fast and strongly around volcanoes.
An empty lahar river bed
Lahar flows downhill Mt Mayon volcano toward Pacific ocean
Date/Time: Mon 24 Sep 2007 07:55:03 AM PHT
Very nearby this lahar river bed on the black sand beach of the Pacific ocean coast is a huge construction project for beach front properties .. the project appears nearly empty - no wonder ! Who wants to invest excessive prices in beach front property if the Volcano in your backyard may leave you with all your dreams and mortgages buried under ashes and lava any time.
It appears there are more smart investors or potential home owners in this beautiful country than the project owners expected. Legazpi City and the entire Mt. Mayon neighborhood certainly is no place of healthy living neither a place for sound and solid investments.
Pacific Ring of Fire - Mt. Mayon volcano - part of the pacific ring of fire
Philippines volcanoes are part of the Pacific ring of fire
Date/Time: Mon 24 Sep 2007 07:55:25 AM PHT
The Pacific ring of fire is a region of frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions - small earthquakes are normal even on a weekly or monthly basis in some Philippine areas and the 22 active Philippine volcanoes are all within the Pacific ring of fire extended all around the Pacific ocean.
Best time to photograph Mt Mayon volcano
Later in morning Mt Mayon volcano is dressed in dense clouds
Date/Time: Tue 25 Sep 2007 07:48:15 AM PHT
It's 7:48 AM and that is about the latest I have experienced until all clouds cover Mayon volcano during my 10 days photo sessions around Mt Mayon volcano and its neighborhood of Albay province.
On fullmoon nights Mt Mayon easily can be recognized naked all night long - just like Filipina girls - Mayon only is naked in night time - as soon as daylight shows, the active volcano hides within an hour or two behind dense clouds all day long.
Best time for Photography of Mt Mayon volcano is after 5 AM until approximately 7 AM. After 7 AM Mayon is visible only on rare occasions.
Beach view Sto Domingo
On national highway a few kms north of Legazpi City
Date/Time: Tue 25 Sep 2007 08:27:37 AM PHT
Sto Domingo beach view and view to Mt Mayon volcano
A glimpse on Mayon volcano thru dense tropical vegetation
From most areas around Mt Mayon you are within sight of the 2460 meters high Volcano.
Date/Time: Tue 25 Sep 2007 08:28:49 AM PHT
With approximately 2460 meters height - Mt Mayon is more than 1000 meters higher than about anything else around in this province. Hence the Volcano serves as a navigational aid up to dozens of kms away.Mt Mayon with its 2460 meters / 8070 ft height is among the highest 30 mountains in the Philippines - around position 21+ but seldom shows up in highest mountain list of the country ... may be because of its regular activities and hence changing height it is impossible to give a precise height and thus a precise rank among the highest peaks of the Philippine islands.
Coconut palms along the hills behind Sto Domingo beach
Dense coconut palm trees on the mountain sloops along the coast
Date/Time: Tue 25 Sep 2007 08:31:50 AM PHT
The more we drive away from Mt Mayon - the greener the vegetation and the older / bigger the trees become.
Beautiful blue flowers - blue blossoming bushes year round
Imagine a home with millions of flowers where ever you look - year round free healing for your heart and soul ...
Date/Time: Wed 26 Sep 2007 09:46:43 AM PHT
Flowers, flower energy and the healing aura emanation of natural plants are healing for body, mind and soul. In areas of wild healthy nature the overall health and spiritual growth is easier than in death artificial city environments. No number of plastic trees or plastic flowers ever can compensate for the God made medicine of natural flowers and plants.
Friendly and loving people love flowers
Bicol is in my 7+ years of Philippine-experience one of the most colorful and beautiful Regions of the Philippine islands
Date/Time: Tue 25 Sep 2007 09:20:21 AM PHT
Bikolana - also spelled Bicolana - are people / females - from Bicol Region. Males would correctly be spelled Bikolano/Bicolano.
Bikolana are among the friendliest of all Filipinas. While the entire Philippine population definitely is among the most loving and friendliest of the entire planet - here in Bicol we find above average friendly population - also toward all foreigners.
Friendly and loving people love flowers - here in Bicol we have millions of beautiful houses decorated with tropical flowers, orchids, blossoming bushes. The flowers in your garden are a direct reflection of your love toward all OTHERS.
Hence even very simple houses here have colorful blossoming flowers ... to make you feel loved and welcome in Paradise on earth.
The more love from all to all - the higher the quality of living
The quality of living depends solely on the amount of love available to all
Date/Time: Tue 25 Sep 2007 09:23:22 AM PHT
To love your family is normal - to love all also is normal, at least in God's home.
White and dark red bi-color Hibiscus
One of the typical specialties of Bicol is the wide range of Hibiscus flowers
Date/Time: Wed 26 Sep 2007 08:25:18 AM PHT
Many large strong Hibiscus varieties blossom year round in the gardens and fields around Bicolana villages and houses to make life here a pleasant experience for your heart and soul.
Portulaca flowers - sun plants in different colors around most houses
Far outside Legazpi City most houses are decorated with abundance of colorful Portulaca flowers
Date/Time: Wed 26 Sep 2007 09:44:14 AM PHT
Free to multiply - an easy plant to grow, to multiply and give away to friends and neighbors - Portulaca grows by the millions in Albay province - Bicol
Palm trees - Mount Mayon hidden in clouds behind palm trees
The entire area around Mt Mayon has mainly coconut palm industry
Date/Time: Thu 27 Sep 2007 07:54:59 AM PHT
Most of the hills are covered with thousands of coconut palms for coconut lumber and more importantly copra production
Lush green vegetation
Tropical lush green nature - a healthy free resource of life force
Date/Time: Thu 27 Sep 2007 07:55:26 AM PHT
Living in such a beautiful natural environment saves you thousands of US dollars in medical expenses and vitamins. All is supplied for free by nature - free to all - provided we all care for our beautiful nature to let nature grow wildly and strongly around our homes and backyards.
Beautiful tropical scenery - tropical vegetation
Bicol's gentle hills are all covered with such beautiful green tropical vegetation
Date/Time: Thu 27 Sep 2007 07:57:03 AM PHT
Tropical scenery - green bushes, climbing wines, tropical plants and palms to please your heart and soul
Creekside - tropical creek side nature photo
Beautiful vegetation surrounds this small tropical creek
Date/Time: Thu 27 Sep 2007 08:05:36 AM PHT
A small creek side scenery - Sto Domingo north bound thru the hills toward Bacacay. Beautiful tropical lush creekside green. Many small creeks like this one flow downhill the Mt Mayon and its neighboring hills. Clean water as a source of healthy life.
Rice fields and coconut palms - Bacacay
Bacacay village - north of Sto Domingo / Legazpi is rich in beautiful nature and beautiful living conditions
Date/Time: Thu 27 Sep 2007 08:06:09 AM PHT
Many small cute houses with surrounding lush green gardens - houses fully integrated into nature rather than imposed on nature to fully maintain the beauty of God made nature and living conditions.
Bacacay beach - black sand beach Pacific ocean outside Bacacay village
Black sand beach - black sand absorbs all light
Date/Time: Thu 27 Sep 2007 08:16:47 AM PHT
Black sand beach - black sand absorbs all light.
No matter how clean the water - black sand never looks beautiful nor does ocean water ever look blue like the crystal clear blue ocean around Coron island around Coron island - black sand on the beach means also the ocean floor is black except the coral growth.
Black sand beach - Bacacay black sand beach Pacific ocean
All beaches near Legazpi are black sand beaches
Date/Time: Thu 27 Sep 2007 08:17:24 AM PHT
Clean black sand beaches of Bacacay north of Legazpi city with almost no tourism at all - black sand as a produce of the nearby active volcano.
Black sand beach with beautiful tropical nature scenery
Tropical vegetation behind black sandy beaches
Date/Time: Thu 27 Sep 2007 08:19:33 AM PHT
Few houses, low population density, a very few small beach resorts here and there amidst a beautiful tropical nature scenery - Bacacay black sand beach
Bacacay view of Mt Mayon volcano
View from Bacacay beach toward Mt Mayon
Date/Time: Thu 27 Sep 2007 08:20:47 AM PHT
Large green natural fields, low tropical bushes, trees, palms and dense tropical lush green - a beautiful landscape for nature lovers.
Tropical landscape - palms and lush tropical green
View from Bacacay black sand beach toward Mt Mayon volcano
Date/Time: Thu 27 Sep 2007 08:22:50 AM PHT
Quiet life, peaceful and relaxing amidst tropical beauty and the black sand beach of Bicol's black sand beach.
Palms with a view toward Mt Mayon
A place to relax - no entertainment except your lover and God
Date/Time: Thu 27 Sep 2007 08:25:35 AM PHT
Clean nature as the only treasure for nature lovers besides your love
Black sand beach - pacific ocean beach
Bacacay - many kilometers of black sand beach
Date/Time: Thu 27 Sep 2007 08:25:47 AM PHT
One of the few resorts directly on the Bacacay black sand beach in a very quiet tropical scenery
Mt Mayon volcano - surrounded by white clouds
Like a sugar coated volcano in its white cloud-dress
Date/Time: Thu 27 Sep 2007 08:26:58 AM PHT
Where ever you are here - always with a free view at Mt Mayon thru the beautiful tropical vegetation
Jungle view - low dense jungle and palm trees
Low jungle and dense tropical vegetation
Date/Time: Thu 27 Sep 2007 08:30:07 AM PHT
Due to limited age of trees between major eruptions of Mayon volcano most of the jungle growth is low but nevertheless very dense and most beautiful
Beautiful green ricefield and palm trees - Bicol, Albay
Rice field outside Bacacay
Date/Time: Thu 27 Sep 2007 08:45:33 AM PHT
Rice fields, palms and fruit trees intermittend with blossoming bushes and flowers - Bicol's lush tropical nature - a treasure made by God
Wilderness and cultivated nature side by side
The art of natural agriculture is to always integrate cultures amidst true wild nature
Date/Time: Thu 27 Sep 2007 09:08:33 AM PHT
Nature protects from pest and herbal illness - hence the best pesticide or herbicide is a true natural balance around and inside your agriculture. Let God grow his healing wilderness around your fields and allow non-cultivated plants and bushes to grow amidst your cultivated areas. There is plenty of space to share your garden with God's nature to keep all planet strong, healthy and balanced to better support our all health and happiness.
Palms on black sand beach
Coconut palms survive all storms and Taifuns of the coastal area
Date/Time: Thu 27 Sep 2007 09:13:58 AM PHT
Exposed to the Pacific ocean - many Taifuns hit the palms first and yet even after powerful Taifun like the one hitting exactly this spots here, almost no casualties among the many coconut palms can be found.
Taifun damage on the beach of Albay - Bacacay
Nearly one year later still lots of unrepaired Taifun damage all along the beach
Date/Time: Thu 27 Sep 2007 09:14:39 AM PHT
About one year after the last strong Taifun there still are many damage or totally wrecked houses and beach installations here. A sign that the local tourist industry is weak - too weak to pay for repair of useless items such as sun sheds on the remote black sand beaches of Albay.
Coconut palms - tropical coconut plantation scenery
Coconut palms - nature scenery image with coconut palms and tropical green vegetation
Date/Time: Thu 27 Sep 2007 09:32:32 AM PHT
Coconut palms - nature scenery image with coconut palms and tropical green vegetation
Tropical hills and mountains with coconut palm plantations
Nature scenery outside Bacacay
Date/Time: Thu 27 Sep 2007 09:32:48 AM PHT
Nature scenery outside Bacacay - Bicol, Albay - most of the hills are covered with beautiful coconut palms for copra production
Strong lush tropical growth amidst coconut palms
Tropical nature scenery with palm trees
Date/Time: Thu 27 Sep 2007 09:34:04 AM PHT
High beautiful coconut palms in a beautiful natural tropical environment
Coconut palms scenery
Tropical nature scenery with palm trees
Date/Time: Thu 27 Sep 2007 09:35:04 AM PHT
High beautiful coconut palms in a beautiful natural tropical environment
Small house - living in a small house fully embedded in tropical nature
Living amidst beautiful tropical nature
Date/Time: Thu 27 Sep 2007 09:35:54 AM PHT
Typical nature scenery from Bicol region - natural living amidst beautiful nature - Bacacay village, Albay province
Wilderness - tropical wilderness and lush green - tropical scenery photo
While it all looks like wilderness - this nature scenery actually shows plentiful of edible plants
Date/Time: Thu 27 Sep 2007 09:36:03 AM PHT
Many of the plants and bushes shown here produce edible food - the only difference to typical mass production is that all plants are allowed to grow in a natural environment, mixed culture just God made allowing plentiful of balancing wild herbs, blossoming plants and bushes to grow amidst food producing trees and plants.
Rice field with ocean view - Bacacay beach scenery
Large ricefields just behind Bacacay beach of Pacific ocean coast
Date/Time: Thu 27 Sep 2007 09:54:31 AM PHT
Pacific ocean view outside Bacacay village - rice fields, coconut palms with ocean view
Pacific ocean view scenery Bacacay - Bicol
Rice field, palms, hills and pacific ocean view outside Bacacay village
Date/Time: Thu 27 Sep 2007 09:54:37 AM PHT
Rice field, palms, hills and pacific ocean view outside Bacacay village
Birds of paradise - birds of paradise flower decorating a rice field
Birds of paradise flowers are abundant in the Philippines and found in many variations
Date/Time: Thu 27 Sep 2007 10:00:58 AM PHT
Birds of paradise flowers are abundant in the Philippines and found in many variations
Tropical hills and mountains of Bicol region
Bicol region is rich in thousands of tropical hills and mountains
Date/Time: Thu 27 Sep 2007 10:21:51 AM PHT
Bicol region is rich in thousands of tropical hills and mountains
Covered with a large variety of wild nature growth, trees, fruit trees and blossoming bushes - a low but dense jungle growth.
Hundreds of small creeks flow downhill Mt Mayon volcano
Small creeks feeding into the many rice fields and gardens
Date/Time: Sun 30 Sep 2007 03:01:54 PM PHT
Small creeks feeding into the many rice fields and gardens
Water as a source of lire - Albay region without Mt Mayon volcano would be with one major water source less. The high Mt Mayon stores plentiful of water for the entire region. From smallest creeks to small rivers flowing downhill the gentle sloops of Mt Mayon - all fertile lush tropical growth and plantations depend on a clean water supply - so do we humans.
Rice fields - all around Mt Mayon plentiful green lush rice fields
Rice fields on the gentle sloops of Mt Mayon volcano
Date/Time: Sun 30 Sep 2007 03:05:05 PM PHT
Rice fields on the gentle sloops of Mt Mayon volcano
Nurished by the small creeks flowing downhill Mt Mayon - rice soon ready to harvest from the rice fields around Mt Mayon volcano
Water Hyacinth - Eichhoria crassipes - Philippines abundance of Water Hyacinth
Water Hyacinth.along a small creek flowing thru rice fields
Date/Time: Sun 30 Sep 2007 03:06:29 PM PHT
Water Hyacinth.along a small creek flowing thru rice fields
On of the most common blossoming water plants around rice fields, ponds and small creeks are the beautiful light blue / lavender color Water Hyacinth - a water plant with rich blossoming flowers.
Farmer with water buffalo - Carabao
Without carabao no farming thinkable in the Philippines
Date/Time: Sun 30 Sep 2007 03:11:55 PM PHT
Most farmers - specially rice field farmers - have at least one Carabao - Asian water buffalo. Pulling logs out of the forest, preparing the soil in rice fields flooded with deep water - the Carabao is a multitask helper maintenance free and environment friendly.
Carabao love water, hence in the water bless Philippine islands carabao feel at home in the many mud holes or water holes. Feeding on wild nature - the carabao needs no maintenance at all unless you want to spoil the one doing all the hard work. Machine farming is almost unknown - good for mother nature - the carabao does the very same in a natural way as a friend to all farmers.
Carabao - water buffalo - work hard for many hours when needed
Bicol's farmers are hard working people
Date/Time: Sun 30 Sep 2007 03:12:21 PM PHT
Bicol farmers are hard working people - hence the rich harvest and multitude of difference vegetables and fruits in Bicol region. Bikolano work many hours, in hottest sun all day long to prepare and care for their fields - as a result of hard work, real poverty is unknown. Life may be extremely simple from the view point of Makati corporate ppl or politicians - but Bikolano farmers have all they need for a happy life and healthy family - a beautiful nature, food in abundance and a life fully integrated in God's nature.
Beautiful flowers everywhere - Bicol is a flower region
Flowers everywhere as a result of all hard work expressing the love for your family
Date/Time: Sun 30 Sep 2007 03:14:55 PM PHT
To care for fields is a man's job and a man's way to say I love you to his entire village and family - to care for a blossoming living environment is a girl's job to show her love for all creation and society. Here in Bicol we have an abundance of beautiful flowers - flowers around all huts and houses as well as around fields and all village or along paths.
Pink Hibiscus - full blossom pink hibiscus flower
Among the many flowers in Bicol and the Philippines - Hibiscus is one of the most abundant
Date/Time: Sun 30 Sep 2007 03:24:00 PM PHT
Bicol is rich in a wide variety of beautiful large blossom hibiscus bushes blossoming each day all year long.
Hot pink Hibiscus - simple Hibiscus blossom
Simple hibiscus blossom are more frequent than filled hibiscus blossoms.
Date/Time: Sun 30 Sep 2007 03:28:29 PM PHT
Bicol's Hibiscus blossom are very large and in many brilliant color varieties.
