Seawater swimming pool at old mill near Baia des Quatro Ribeiras
Seawater swimming pool at old mill near Baia des Quatro Ribeiras
On the Rocks at Quatro Ribeiras
Quatro Ribeiras
Swimming pool at the Terceira Mar hotel viewed from our balcony with Monte Brasil in the background
Land view of the Terceira Mar hotel at Angra do Heroismo
View over Angra including the Cathedral do Santissimo Salvador da Se
Igreja da Misericordia overlooking the yacht basin at Angra
Praia d'Angra beside the yacht basin
Theo in the Gruta de Natal
Hygrangea hedges & Andrew
Steaming vents at Furnas do Enxofre on Terceira
Ponta dos Capelinhos
On the edge at Ponta dos Capelinhos
Ponta dos Capelinhos
Corner fireplace in the lighthouse keeper's lodgings, Ponta dos Capelinhos
Salvage of the CP Valour at Praia da Faja
CP Valour which suffered engine troubles before going aground at Praia da Faja, Faial
Bigger waves breaking on the deck
Rocks in the harbour
Faial Coastline
Ponta do Sala(n)o, Faial, with Sao Jorge in the distance
View of Horta Harbour from the belvedere Espalamaca
View from our balcony at the Hotel Horta, Faial: Pico in the clouds & the Astoria cruise ship
Pico at dawn, elevation 2351m/7711ft
Pico at Dawn from our balcony
Clouds moving across the Caldeira rim
Caldeira, Faial - spot the walking tourists on the floor
View of tourists walking on the floor of the Caldeira, Faial
Theo touches Pico
Azorean Grey Wagtail chick on the Caldeira
Cows on the Caldeira slopes with Pico in the background
Faial, Pico & Andrew from the Caldeira rim
Porto-Pim through the harbour gate
View of Porto-Pim and Horta Harbour (in background) from Monte de Guia
Horta from the ferry to Pico, our hotel centre right looking like a waffle
Pico waterfront with a little boat coming in to land at Madalena, Pico
Pico at Dawn, Sunday morning
Pico at Dawn, Sunday morning with the Pico ferry (on left)
Boarding the whale-watching RIBs with Pico in the background
Our sister boat with Pico in the background
Sperm whale off Sao Jorge
sperm whales
Atlantic Spotted Dolphins frolicking
leaping dolphin
leaping dolphin, soaring gull
Theo watching the surf at Feteira, w. of Horta
Andrew, flat out at Feteira
Feteira in the background
the little merman
high water
low water
On returning from the rock pool we saw a rainbow from our balcony
The rainbow is quite low and stretches from just above the crane on the left into the harbour
Horta Harbour from the air, Porto-Pim on this side and the yacht basin on the other
Ponta Delgada Aeroporto, Sao Miguel
Sete Cidades, Lagoa Azul e Lagoa Verda (Blue Lake & Green Lake, foreground)
Sete Cidades (left) and the two lakes
Azorean chaffinches (makes a change from sparrows)
View of Mosteiros from the mirodouro at Ponta do Escalvado
Theo visits the Eiffel Tower
Igreja do Sao Pedro, Ponta Delgada, Sao Miguel
Former harbour front colonnade at Ponta Delgada, now kitchens for Cafe Mascot and covered with moorish tiles
Original city gates and Igreja do Sao Sebastian - where's Andrew?
A multi-coloured house we liked on Rua dos Acores
Theo amongst the pineapples
pineapple candelabrum in the gift shop
Lagoa do Fogo as the cloud moves in
Lagoa do Fogo, people on the beach
a Ginger Lily
a Tree Fern
Stinking, bubbling, steaming volcanic mud: a fumarole near Caldeira Velha
Caldeira Velha - where's Andrew?
he really likes them
Tea plantation, Cha Porto Formoso
Inside the tea factory, most equipment supplied by Marshall's of Gainsborough
the dryer
the dryer from another angle
Andrew finds a friend
Tea Plantation no. 2 at Gorreana: the oxidation room
Emptying the sterilizing barrel
Freshly sterilized tea entering the oxidation room
a dryer
Suffocated by the fumes at Furnas
the boiling waters at Furnas
Furnas with the boiling waters in the foreground and the sulphurous steam in the background
Pero Botelho - a 16th century nickname for the devil - it sounds like an enormous dishwasher
locals boil sacks of corn on the cob in these pools and sell them to tourists - yum!
Furnas - corn sacks in background on right
Thomas Hickling's mansion in the Terra Nostra gardens overlooking a dark yellow thermal pool
on the rocks in the waterlily pond, Terra Nostra gardens
just kidding
water lily extreme close-up
Andrew's favorite orange flowers again with allium lilies and hydrangea shrubs too.
The waterlily pool (note stepping stones) with Nostra Senhora da Alegria in the background
the English-style flower garden with a deep herbaceous border, high hedges and a chaffinch
Pre-dawn view of the morning star from our hotel window
the Pico Zone between Capelas (background) and Sete Cidades
View of Lagoas Santiago & Azul (L to R) - note tourists on left at mirodouro
View out to sea from a mirodouro and picnic area near Relva
Hotel Sao Miguel Park swimming pool