Tuesday

11.4.17     

Feeding her goats

We walked through a nature reserve by the War Cemetery, some of the group saw a mole cricket, but those in the van missed out.   There were yellow wagtails in quantity (60) and some new plants.

Rushes

Sheep

Silvery sea and sky

Serapias

Serapias lingua

Muscari comosum

Masses of Serapias lingua

White bearded iris

Parentucellia viscosa

Souda War Cemetery was perfectly kept.   We were dropped off in Charnia to have lunch and look around.

The Lighthouse

Panoramas Chania Harbour

Tourist trap

We looked around Charnia took some back street photos and had spinach pies for lunch.   H had a very dark chocolate ice cream which was very filling indeed right up until dinner time.

Peter is snapping the door in the next picture

Covered market

Segways for escorted trips round the town

The Mosque

Yachts in the harbour

Verticles

Entrance to the Synagogue

This enlarges

Fishing

Sculpture

Bracket fungus

Hyocyamus albus

 We went on to the Agia reservoir saw some birds including geese, Garganey ducks and a Little Stint.   (A tiny little wader).

Dimorphotheca climbing into a conifer

Cercis siliquastrum - the Judas tree

Goslings

I'm the Daddy!

Floating in the water

Flowers like snowflakes

Buttercups and borage

Cyperus fuscus

Garganey not sharp

Lastly we went to the impressive Therisso Gorge walking a little way up the road.   Symphytum creticum and Petromarula pinnata were flowering on the rocks.

Cyclamen creticum

Rosularia serrata

Asplenium ceterach

Goats coping with the slope