Photo of the Week - 11/19/2006
Visitors travel to the Galapagos Archipelago by air or by sea, as has this sailboat anchored in Sullivan Bay on Santiago Island.
One of the attractions of Sullivan Bay is the lava field known as "Panoehoe (Hawaiian for Rope). This thin-skinned lava's molten material cools down after an eruption causing the surface materials to buckle creating a rope like appearance. Panoehoe Lava is rare to the rest of the world, but is common to the volcanoes of Hawaii and the Galapagos Islands."
Sullivan Bay.
Enjoy more views in the Galápagos Photo Gallery.
Photo thanks to ClipArt.com
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