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Saint Helena Gallery redux

Saint Helena. A look into Jamestown from the switchback road above.

Saint Helena. Jacobs Ladder, with Jamestown below.

Saint Helena. Above Prosperous Bay.

Saint Helena. The Sandy Bay Chapel.

The sheer Speery Island, on southern Saint Helena, provides a habitat for birds.

Jamestown, Saint Helena. Blue and blue, against blue.

Endemic flora on the island of Saint Helena: Gumwood (Commidendrum robustum).

Above Sandy Bay on the island of Saint Helena. The rock formation in the foreground is Lot, borne of volcanic activity and erosion. Behind Lot, on the left, is Lot's Wife (the remains of a volcanic dyke). Between them are are Gorilla's Head and The Ass's Ears.

Saint Helena flora — endemic boneseed (Osteospermum sanctae-helenae), a rare yellow flower on an island where most endemics bloom white.

Saint Helena. True colors at sunset, above Sandy Bay.

Saint Helena — a spider in the garden, against a backdrop of bougainvillea.

Saint Helena — on a hike to Peak Dale, looking down toward Sandy Bay.

Saint Helena — looking through the gumwood at Peak Dale, to Sandy Bay.

Saint Helena's "Millennium Forest" provides a glimpse of the island restored.

Saint Helena flora — endemic pelargonium.

Saint Helena flora — young stems of endemic "she cabbage" (Lachanodes arborea).

Saint Helena flora — damaged leaves of the extinct-in-the-wild endemic redwood (Trochetiopsis erythroxylon).

Saint Helena flora — at Diana's Peak, the endemic tree-fern (Dicksonia arborescens).

Saint Helena flora — at Diana's Peak, fern frond unfolding.

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