During the night the volcano at Cumbre Vieja in La Palma has not relented and continues to spew thousands of cubic metres of lava and tons of Sulphur Dioxide into the air. At 11.03pm last night, the inevitable happened when the hotter, faster, more fluid lava flow finally reached the sea after overcoming its final obstacle, the Todoque Mountain.
The moment was caught on film briefly from a long distance away, but since then film crews have managed to capture it with long-distance lenses and you can see it cascading down a 100-metre cliff onto the Los Guirres beach and into the water.
It is here that gases are being produced due to a reaction between 1,100°C and 20°C seawater and is why residents of surrounding villages are confined to their homes until the gases have been tested to find out if they are harmful to peoples health or not.
As it is starting to get light this morning, more images are emerging showing the full effect as the lava starts to form a pyramid more than 50 meters high, according to the Spanish Institute of Oceanography.
