El Hierro (Canaries): novembre 2011
Some impressions from this charming island in the Atlantic Ocean.
La Frontera in the evening (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
(1577 Hits)
(1577 Hits)
The large pine forest. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
(823 Hits)
(823 Hits)
Young pine tree babies starting to grow. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
(945 Hits)
(945 Hits)
Cinder cone on the south rift zone near La Restina. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
(652 Hits)
(652 Hits)
The 1000m tall cliff above Frontera (El Golfo), the scar of a giant landslide that remove much of th... [info]
(963 Hits)
(963 Hits)
A protected ocean swimming pool (La Macina) (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
(733 Hits)
(733 Hits)
Foam on the breaking ocean waves (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
(727 Hits)
(727 Hits)
A less than 10,000 years old aa lava flow in the coastal flat of El Golfo. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
(638 Hits)
(638 Hits)
The isolated village Sabinosa (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
(695 Hits)
(695 Hits)
Coastal road in the western El Golfo depression (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
(900 Hits)
(900 Hits)
Lighthouse-church Virgen de Candelaria, La Frontera (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
(1688 Hits)
(1688 Hits)
Lighthouse-church Virgen de Candelaria, La Frontera, sitting on a relatively young cinder cone. (Pho... [info]
(1937 Hits)
(1937 Hits)
El Pinar (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
(669 Hits)
(669 Hits)
Baby pine hoping to grow (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
(1076 Hits)
(1076 Hits)
The scar of the large lateral collapse of Las Playas (east coast) (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
(637 Hits)
(637 Hits)
el-hierro_i49864.jpg (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
(508 Hits)
(508 Hits)
South rift zone landscape, El Hierro Island (Canary Islands) (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
(3477 Hits)
(3477 Hits)
Hot smoking lava blocks float to the surface above the submarine vent (Nov 2011). (Photo: Tom Pfeiff... [info]
(808 Hits)
(808 Hits)
Deserted street in La Restinga (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
(641 Hits)
(641 Hits)
A beautiful cinder cone dominates the small fishing harbor of idyllic(?) La Restina (Photo: Tom Pfei... [info]
(668 Hits)
(668 Hits)
Modern architecture in colorful La Restinga (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
(597 Hits)
(597 Hits)
During the first weeks of the submarine eruption, several TV crews and numerous observers were at th... [info]
(563 Hits)
(563 Hits)
The semi-desert southern rift zone (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
(747 Hits)
(747 Hits)
Lapilli-covered ground near a geologically young cinder cone. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
(749 Hits)
(749 Hits)
El Pinar village is often at the limit of the clouds produced by the trade winds, descending half wa... [info]
(646 Hits)
(646 Hits)
Houses of El Pinar in the evening sunlight (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
(521 Hits)
(521 Hits)
La Frontera and the 1000m high cliff in the last sunlight. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer) [info]
(1386 Hits)
(1386 Hits)
A large exposed ancient volcanic dyke in the collapse wall of El Golfo and a debris avalanche deposi... [info]
(1117 Hits)
(1117 Hits)
