Photographic Memories #15

As every traveller knows, when you look back through old travel photos, many of them trigger wonderful memories. With lockdown incomplete and travel still on hold for a while, we currently have no new adventures to blog; we do though have many such memories…

Photo #15: New Earth 

This photograph’s claim to fame is that it is the only place we’ve ever visited where we are looking across land which is younger than we are. Salt pans now dominate the panorama as the new land is put to profitable use, but this land simply didn’t exist until 1971, when the cascading lava of the erupting volcano was cooled by the Atlantic and the island of La Palma was extended southwards.

Fifty years later it’s still a dramatic landscape where folds of dark rock mould in perpetuity the shapes of the waves of lava.