Costa Rica 101

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Volcanoes and Arenal!!!

      Volcanoes can be divided into three common categories stratovolcano, cinder cone, or shield.

    Each type of volcano is associated with a certain type of lava.

    Volcanoes are usually fed by a large reserve of magma that collects in a large underground cavity called a magma chamber.

    Magma is more buoyant than the surrounding rock so it naturally pushes upward.

    When the pressure is high enough the magma shoots up through a long shaft.

    Geysers are springs that throw boiling water high in the air. They are caused by volcanic heat warming trapped ground water. Algunos volcanes despues de un erupcion grande se colapsan y hacen un enorme depresion.

    Magma es roca liquido que erupte de un volcan cuando hay bastante presion.

    Cada typo de volcan tiene diferentes typs de lava.

    El volcan mas grande que todavia es activo es Mauna Loa en Hawaii.

    200,000 personas perdieron sus vidas por volcanes en 500 anos.

    I am going to post the theme song for the novela soon. I hope everything is going alright. BYE!!!!!!!!

    Monday, September 1, 2008

    Baldi Hot Springs

    This weekend we went to Baldi hot springs. Baldi is a thermal pool so it´s heated by water that passes through a volcano which heats it up. Baldi has 25 different pools so it was pretty awesome. It also has 2 water slides and there both really cool but super fast. The videos are of the smaller one because the big one has to many curves to film. The slide looks a lot slower than it actually is. Aside from the slides the hot springs have restaurants where you can sit in the water and eat at a table. There is also an aqua spa and a sauna. It was the coolest hot springs I have ever been to.