Our stay on Flores ended with a flight back in perfect weather. It took us from the two westernmost islands of the archipelago over the five middle ones, to one of the two at the eastern end. The one that stole the show was Pico, which caused half the passengers on the plane to get up from their seats and peer out the starboard windows. It was amazing, the island itself was covered in fluffy white cloud, in a level carpet, but through the cloud came a perfect cone of Pico's volcano, complete with crater at the top. It looked black against the cloud. I gazed at it and couldn't stop saying 'Wow!'. Sadly both our cameras were out of reach, so this description is going to have to do!

We got back to the boat and chilled out for a while, then met up with Andrew and Susan from Andromeda who had meantime arrived in our marina, after a foggy crossing from Santa Maria. More anon

Above is a pic of Flores' flowers