Lake Taal and Taal Volcano - Watery Wednesday

We had a long weekend to commemorate the National Heroes Day on August 31st. Sally and I wanted to go to Puerto Galera for the weekend but it rained so we cancelled our plans. On Sunday afternoon, I drove to the Mall of Asia to meet my sister and cousins for dinner. Tita Azela, my aunt and Zhallyn, my sister, went to the movies with Jan and Zyke, while Sally, Franzia and myself, watched Lisa Macuja. Late Sunday night while eating bibingka (rice cake) and spicy kebab, we suddenly made up our minds to take a road trip. Pangasinan and Subic were our options but we ended up driving to Tagaytay after midnight.

From the Tagaytay ridge and Picnic Grove, I took these photos of Lake Taal and Volcano on Monday afternoon. Lake Taal is a freshwater lake located in a caldera formed by very large eruptions between 500,000 and 100,000 years ago. The active Taal Volcano, a part of the Pacific Ring of Fire, which is the one responsible for the lake's sulfuric content, lies on an island in the center of the lake. The island is called Volcano Island, or "pulo" by the locals. Inside Volcano Island is another lake, about 2 kilometers across, called Crater Lake. Within the Crater Lake is another small volcanic island called Vulcan Point. Vulcan Point is often referred to as the world's largest volcanic island within a lake on an island within a lake on an island. Now I know you're confused!

Visualize these---Vulcan Point within Crater Lake, on Volcano Island within Lake Taal, on the island of Luzon. See? :P

Many believe that Lake Taal is also a crater of a volcano, thus making Taal Volcano "a volcano inside the volcano".

view of Lake Taal and Taal Volcano from Picnic Grove

Posted for Watery Wednesday