Lava rock and shore, Galapagos Islands, 1961

35mm color slide

35mm color slide from voyage of brigantine ALBATROSS 1960-1961; photographed by Richard E. Langford who was a teacher aboard the vessel when it sank May 2, 1961; he used slides in this collection (2002.35.1-657) for lectures about the sinking. The following description of this slide is part of a transcription of a videotaped lecture from Richard Langford Collection AV 193:2002-5,6: [TCR 02:50:44]:
“It’s like walking on broken crockery, clinking and clanking all the way up to the top and down [on a volcano in the Galapagos]. You can see how these islands were formed out there in the Galapagos. Maybe in a million years they’ll be just as lush as the Hawaiian Islands. But down there where the water washes across (light pointer) and debris collects and the birds land and leave fertilizer and drop seeds you can see where the green is starting. The rest of it is just bleak lava rock. But that’ll spread as the birds bring in food for insects.”