Sunday

9.4.17    

Souda Bay early

Through the arch

Poppy by the bins

Another cold night, I will bring my slippers on the next holiday…   We stopped to buy bread on the way to the Imbros Gorge then on to a pancake (Sfakian Pie) and coffee place.  We walked down the gorge a distance of about 5 miles which was quite rubbly underfoot and so our legs and particularly knees were tired.   We had butter beans (H) and rabbit (P) with mushrooms for dinner.

Carrot

We stopped in Imbros Village for a Sfakian Pie, I had a wonderful squeezed orange juice.

Almond blossom

Trifolium uniflorum

Erodium

Hermodactylus tuberosus

Forget-me-not

Asphodeline lutea

We walked down the Imbros Gorge at the south of the island.   This is the habitat of numerous endemic Cretan plants, as well as offering some spectacular scenery.   The walk was about 8km / 5 miles and rough and rubbly underfoot in places and so our legs and particularly knees were tired.   We were glad of our poles towards the bottom of the gorge.      We had butter beans and rabbit with mushrooms for dinner.

We set off down the Imbros Gorge

Arabis verna

Euphorbia acanthothamnos

Anchusa variegata

Origanum dictamnus

possibly the same plant as the one below

Saxifraga chrysosplenifolia

Anthemis filicaulis?

Ricotia cretica

Ophrys tenthredinifera

Erysimum candicum high up on the rock

Land slip

Orchis quadripunctata

Headless conductor

Cairn

Deep gorge

Arisarum vulgare

Elephant

Snake / Dragon

Valeriana asarifolia

Valeriana asarifolia

The Gorge narrows

A bird?

People messing around

We wait for some time before going through

Linum arboreum high on the rocks

Manatee?

Admiring

Euphorbia sultan- hassei

Almost there

Verbascum arcturus

Snails