Crete 4

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CRETE

Saturday

18.4.2008

Vrises, the Agia reservoir Armenoi slit tombs and Georgioupoli beach

Sun coming up on the white mountains

Cat and Pithos

Patio early morning

River and weir at Vrises

The Man at Vrieses

Cafe at Vrieses

Backgammon

Wind pump

Crepis Rubra

Turtles at the reservoir

Land crab

Cretan Festoon

Grasshopper

Froglet in a puddle

Blue

Star clover and Triticum vagans (the ancestor of wheat)

Ophrys

Convolvulus althaeoides

Serapias lingua

Orchis

Orchis italica

Salsify seed head

Salsify seed head

Ophrys bombyliflora

Ophrys hybrid

Armenoi wood where we had a picnic

Serapias orientalis

Ophrys cressa

Anacamptis papilionacea

Ophrys creberrima

Kalikratis

Ophrys fusca group

Crucifer by the road

Orchis laxiflora

Orchis laxiflora

Ophrys heldreichii

Ophrys episcopalis

Silene colorata

Medicago marina

Eryngium maritinum

Echium angustifolium

Footprints in the sand: the fifth one is a lizard, some others birds. The last one has a millipede in it, but it is too small to have made the trail

The visitors have come and gone for now; soon the footprints will all be washed away.

Does the driftwood look like a sheep?

We saw a marsh harrier on the way back one afternoon; I can't remember when so it appears here.