El Dorado Volcano Painting

I would never have believed it if I hadn't been there personally. I mean on the mission with Captain Zanzibar, of course. He was the only explorer to be able to convince the Dowager Empress to spend money on ships and men to sail into the unknown to try to find the Lost City of Gold. Clearly his powers of persuasion were superior to the other captains who had tried, or perhaps it was his blatant flirting with her. Either way, we left the palace with plenty of money to fund the trip, and Zanzibar had a mischievous smile that I hadn't seen him flash in years. We dropped anchor a month later in a cove on what we now know to be El Dorado Island. Captain Zanzibar had our ships sail completely around the entire island, twice, and we saw no signs of civilization. Thirty of us rowed to the beach in five boats of six to explore this strange land. The men talked amongst themselves and were feeling a combination of excitement, anticipation, and fear. We split up and began to search the island for signs of life, but more importantly, for gold. It was my group that first saw the volcano. Not a huge one on a mountaintop like in the stories. This volcano was no bigger than the Great Pyramid of Giza so we climbed up to look down into the crater. What we saw next confirmed our wildest ambitions. GOLD! Lots of it! I would leave it up to Captain Zanzibar to figure out HOW to extract all that hot molten gold from all that hot molten lava. It was bubbling and spitting in a huge pool maybe 75 feet below the top of the rim. All I knew was that it was all real. The gold was real... it was just so hot it was liquid gold.

Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:16 W x 20 H x 1 D in

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