Friday, August 08, 2008

Last pictures from the Azores - we're off!

August 8, 2008 Friday
In Ponta Delgada, we went to visit a cave of lava tubes. Lava flowed through these underground pipelines to the sea. There we quite a few separate flows, each one modifying the cave a bit.

There are "stalagmites", but not the usual kind. These result from hot lava dripping from the ceiling.

Here is one of the big churches.

We went out to dinner with a fellow Santa Cruzan, Moose (right behind Andi)and his friends from the Caribbean. They were delivering a catamaran to Portugal and will probably leave in a day or so.

Here were two bus drivers having a major argument about "right-of-way" because they couldn't get their buses past each other. They finally stopped yelling, started driving, and soon got it worked out.

We will write you from the high seas.

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