Day 4 - Roques de Garcia

After two early starts on the trot I thought the troops deserved a slightly more leisurely morning so we reverted to 9am and had time to enjoy a proper breakfast with all the trimmings.
We went straight to the Parador and parked there , used the loos etc and headed over to the Roques de Garcia, a ridge of rocks that marks a change in level of the caldera floor. A beautifully sunny day again and plenty of time to stroll along the path looking at all the features to be seen here, including the beautiful pahoehoe flow with big platy plagioclase phenocrysts which flowed through a gap at the top end. After lunch (where the lizards were so feisty they nearly became a pest) some of us went on down to the lower caldera and round the base of the rocks while the rest retraced our steps, meeting up again at the cafeteria.

Top end of the Roques de Garcia

A visit to the Azulejos to examine the blue-green hydrothermal alteration, and then a stop at Boca de Tauce to check out different dyke orientations completed day 4 and we headed back down the hill to beer and a bathe with an early start on the cards for the next day