



Today was a special tour up the volcano as the uncle of my good friend Juan-Carlos Gavilanes Ruiz, el Sr. Angel Ruiz Alvarado, joined us for the tour, and Sr. Angel Ruiz Alvarado is 86 years old! He is now the oldest person I have taken up the volcano, and my son Angus who will be 5 on the 1st August, is the youngest. Actually Angus was going up the volcano when he was 3 years old! And it is Angus that calls the volcano; Volcan Coliman. So now Volcan de Colima or Colima Volcano, is "Volcan Coliman". The volcano is also called Volcan de Fuego de Colima, but I like Volcan Coliman. Well done Angus! The adjacent extinct volcano, el Nevado de Colima, also has another name; the Nahuatl name, El Zapotepetl. Just like the Nahuatl name for Volcan Pico de Orizaba is Citlatépetl. I bet the true Nahuatl (Aztec) name for Colima Volcano is Volcan Coliman (Because Colima is derived from the Nahuatl word Colimaitl: Where coli means volcano and grandfather, and maitl means dominion). Angus is holding my snake tongs because we are looking for the Mexican West Coast Rattlesnake
Crotalus basiliscus.