That cheeky Dino is still appearing on Geonet’s White Island crater camera, two years on. I remember the first time I saw it and thought it was quite a laugh – I had initially wondered if geology staff had placed the toy there themselves given that it wasn’t being removed any time soon.
I didn’t realise it had such a following either, seeing as it had been Slashdotted (and BoingBoinged) as well as appearing in newspapers from the NZHerald to the New York Times. The truth appears to be that “some wag” glued Dino to his current locale and the GNS left it believing White Island’s acidic environment would “remove” the plastic Dino in a relatively short amount of time.
However, it is now 2 years on and it doesn’t look like a lot has changed for Dino. May he continue to reign on White Island for a while yet.
