Adventures, wildlife, and life in the Alpujarras
At the moment im reading a book called Murder in the High Himalaya by Jonathan Green. Its about a group of Tibetan refugees trying to cross the border into Nepal over the Nangpa la in 2006 and how the Chinese border guards shoot and kill.
Thought you might like to see one of the characters I met whilst in Patagonia recently. Its a White-throated Caracara (phalcoboenus albogularis).
Ok here we go, the long awaited video from our trip. Hope you dont get too bored! Patagonian Expedition 2010
We have to keep going, we are beyond the point of no return and safety lies ahead of us not behind us. Non of us have ever experienced anything like the 36 hours that that we lived through.
Blizzards, snowdrifts, gales, frostbite, snowblindness, buried tents, floods, hardship, cold, sleepless nights. It must be summer then in deepest Patagonia.
Well the day has nearly arrived for us to leave to one of the windiest wildest places on earth, yes Patagonia. But it is one of the most beautiful places on this planet ive ever seen, it is worth the hardship you endure to be there.
Today we have had our first and only major wildfire this summer. We nearly made it to the end of summer without one.
My 40th birthday approached and I did not want to go out to a bar and drink too much and wake up the next day feeling rough, so we decided to go away for a couple of days instead. We ended up in Cazorla
Had a weeks birding and walking holiday in Mallorca at the beginining of September
At the end of August we decided to go to Wembley to watch the rugby league Challenge Cup because Leeds Rhinos had got through to the final.
A Gota Fria is a Cold Drop which occurs when warm air saturated with water vapour rises and meets a much colder layer high up in the atmosphere.
Living here in the campo of Lanjaron in Andalucia you get used to seeing some strange insects. I photographed this one the other day. It is a Thread-waisted Wasp.
Bird photography. Not alot to say about these as they are self explanatory. Hope you like them.
Long live the Dalai Lama and lets hope one day the Chinese government hand back Tibet to the Tibetan people.
Harness the power of the sun, so we did, we brought a solar cooker! Its called a Sun Oven
All the rain we had during the winter has given us plenty of snow this year. So last week we decided to go snow climbing above Lanjaron near Cerro de Caballo.
This year the Sierra Nevada is different, its still covered in snow, not just a little bit of snow but metres deep amount of snow, thanks to the amount of rain that fell on Andalucia this winter.
Mum and dad came for a weeks holiday just recently, this a report of one of our days out.
As you are aware we got chickens a few months ago so I thought I would give you an update on how they are getting along.
So there I was minding my own business weeding away in the veggie garden, when I felt a sharp pain in my finger. I took my glove off to investigate what the problem was but noticed movement to my right ....... a scorpion making a run for it!