Volcanoes

Grenada

Kick-'em-Jenny

This is an active submarine volcano off the north coast of Grenada, Caribbean. Deep reverberating noises have sometimes been heard onshore during eruptions. Volatile eruptions of Kick-'em-Jenny Volcano have broken the sea surface only three times historically in 1939, 1974 and 1988. An underwater survey of the volcano in 2003 found a second vent 3 km from the volcano.

St. Catherine Volcano

This is located on Grenada; the volcano contains tuff rings, and scoria cones, the most recent eruption at the volcano occurred at a scoria cone near Radix village in the past 1000 years. Hot springs and fumaroles are active at the volcano.

St Lucia

Soufriere

St Lucia is said to have the only "drive-in" volcano in the world, the road runs right through the crater of the Soufriere Volcano which is also known locally as the "sulphur springs", which has become a major tourist attraction.  The crater releases steam and sulphur with boiling mud and water bubbling away just a few meters from the tourists (beware of the smell of rotten eggs) behind a wooden fence that would appear to offer absolutely no protection should the volcano erupt.  The last eruption occurred in the late eighteenth century and the volcano is considered to be dormant; unlike the highly active Soufriere Volcano of the same name on the island of Montserrat. 

Until quite recently you would have been allowed to walk over the crater which is covered in a thin crust, unfortunately, one of the volcano guides fell in and now visitors are requested to stay behind the fence.  There is a stream running through the crater and a little further down are bathing pools which are reputed to have therapeutic qualities for the skin.

The sulphur springs emits a mixture of iron, calcium oxide, sulphur, copper oxide, carbon and magnesium to create the pungent smell and stain the rocks a green color.  Molten volcanic lava is not part of the toxic mix; otherwise the carter would not be safe to visit.