Sunday

11.10.09

Early and the cats are about

Off to Vrysses to shop and have a drink at the cafe and use their loo.   Good loos are a rarity and usually involve having more to drink...

View from the road

Ruined Turkish Fort

Colchicum macrophyllum

White form

Staehelina fruticosa growing in the rock of the gorge

We had lunch in a 'bandstand' in the Kutsifou gorge in the middle of the car park, which sheltered us from the heat of the day.

Meadow Brown

Tamarisk

We walked along the beech towards the cliffs past the Greeks with their families to the area for the nudists - heavily patronized by conker brown Germans.   We considered skinny dipping, but not having a towel decided against it.

Tribulus terrestris

 Spurge Hawkmoth

Pancratium

Vitex agnus-castus

Climber

Daphne gnidioides

Down to the sea

We scrambled up the hillside in the Kourtaleotiko Gorge and found biarum davisii, a Crete endemic, unfortunately I could not get a good photograph, but include it anyway.  

The Sternbergias were growing in the rocks all down the sides of the gorge.

Biarum davisii

Sternbergia sicula

A fuzzy hornet