What do you do when a new volcanic island arises from the great blue ocean? You climb it.

The boat trip took two hours from Nuku'alofa, the capital of Tonga.

Branko Sugar piloted his son Zandy and GP Orbassano to a place he'd been many times before to spearfish.

That's when they came upon an entirely new island. It formed after an eruption at the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano in December, the BBC reported. And scientists were wary about the stability of the land. That didn’t stop the explorers, even if one lacked a certain physical skill.

"GP Orbassano don't know how to swim," Sugar wrote to me on Facebook. "My son had to get off the boat first and land on the islands beach so that he can receive GP."

So Zandy Sugar was also apparently the first to set foot on the island. "He was also the first to reach the top of the volcano," adds Sugar. "More or less running up to the top wearing his island flip-flops."

Sugar and Orbassano followed, slowly. Orbassano took photos.

And man, what photos he took. They've been shared all around the globe. Everyone, it seems, loves the idea of exploring a brand new world that erupted out of the ocean. And that they could be the first, and last, people to ever set foot on it. The island could disappear back into the sea.

But Sugar says they will be going back to the volcanic island soon.

"We will take closer photos of the crater’s lake," he promises.