Satonda Island ( the new paradise )

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Satonda Island ( the new paradise )

Having descended from Mount Tambora, the Ring of Fire Expedition team Kompas, June 24, 2011, straight through Nangamiro Satonda Island, District Concentrated, Dompu regency, West Nusa Tenggara. I am including photographers and camera persons Agus Susanto Kuncoro Ron joined a team to the island which lies to the southwest of Mount Tambora this.
That's the archipelago, the people who live volcanoes can not be separated from the myths and beliefs, including the island of Satonda


The journey across the beach to the island Beranti Satonda only taken about 45 minutes. Motorized boats owned by fishermen that we rent through the sea to calm. Hot weather. Understandably, because we had just come down from the mountain heights where the temperature 10 degrees Celsius and the sea straight into the blazing sun stung.


Satonda ... Welcome! This attractive island for the expedition, because it is a volcanic island that has a unique geological history.


When docked at the pier, which looks a ship anchoring Phinisi take tourists stop by Caucasians. Satonda beach on the island was very clean, the coral reefs along the coast seen from above the surface.


Volcanic island covering an area of ​​4.8 square kilometers is better known by tourists and scientists from abroad. Even if there is there from within the country, more people around who do the pilgrimage.


I was with Agus and Rony vote directly for the track to the summit caldera east to record more clearly the landscape of the lake. Lake in the middle of the island which was once the salt water is the caldera of Mount Satonda and is expected to fill in the tsunami massive eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815.


Hanging rock


About 100 meters from the pier, had to be found salt water lake covering an area of ​​0.8 square kilometers is located right in the middle of the island. Kalibuda tree branch at the edge of the lake a lot depends on a stone tied with a rope.


From the beginning we have been told that the stone was hanged citizens to channel the desire, because there is a stone hanging kepecayaan if it wishes or our ideals can be achieved. I do not know ... which obviously I do not hang a stone in there and just joked persuade Indira Permanasari, female team members, in order to let the desire to hang a stone gets companion reached.


That's the archipelago, the people who live in the volcanoes can not be separated from the myths and beliefs, including the island of Satonda. To put the stone in the trust tree, I saw it as a local wisdom. Not all kinds, I just think the belief hanging rocks, trees mengkeramatkan there as one way of preserving the trees and the ecology of the lake. If there is no confidence that, over time the trees would be felled, so the lake ecology is damaged.