"Come to think of it, no, it's not pretty, it's disastrous", says José Carlos Bautista Martín about the Cumbre Vieja volcano that is erupting on his island of La Palma, in the Canaries. Residents of the Canary Island village of Tazacorte have a ringside seat but are shocked and unwilling onlookers, contemplating a too-close-for-comfort spectacular eruption of the volcano. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES