Friday, September 24, 2010

Ascension Island 6 Devil's riding school


Photos uploaded September 24th but blog posted October 7th

Another letterbox walk we did was to the Devil's Riding School. It was only a short walk from the road to the edge of this old volcanic crater. We walked over these amazing rocks which were very brittle and sounded like porcelain.

There were some very unusual formations around the crater rim.


Inside the crater it looks almost like a circular track around the edge like a race track - hence the name.


The letterbox was on a high spot on the far edge of the rim and easier to find than some of them.

From there we had a good view to the south of the island and the wind turbines.

There were quite a lot of prickly pear plants growing inside the crater as well as Mexican thorn bushes which are becoming prolific over much of the island.










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