Photo of the Day 9

Red Rock Beach, Dominica, 1996
Photograph by Michael Melford

Vacationers barely catch a glimpse of the sea through rocks on Red Rock Beach on Pointe Baptiste in Dominica. Mountainous, densely forested, and populated by waterfalls and exotic birds, much of Dominica is protected as national wilderness.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, “Dominica: The Caribbean’s Nature Island,” November/December 1996, National Geographic Traveler magazine)