A walk through a cork oak forest
Laura and I decided to go for a walk yesterday. She had recently been in this area and I said I would like to see the freshly harvested cork oak trees as I had never seen them.
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Out of my comfort zone and onto the NW ridge of Tozal del Cartujo
This is my version of a day scrambling I had in the Sierra Nevada on the NW ridge of Tozal del Cartujo. Thankfully I was in the competent company of Richard, Felipe and Andrew, who all helped to keep me calm, make me laugh and make me feel confident.
Actually I've been married a month now. Richard and I ran off to Gibraltar and got married on 30th June
What night time visitors do we get in the garden?
Have you ever wondered what night time visitors you get in your garden? Well I did, I know we have them, they leave evidence behind, some more so than others! So I set up a camera trap that I'm lucky to have and hope never to have stolen.
A poppy seems, to me, a good example of how fragile life is. I photographed these beautiful poppies in the morning, a few hours later they were gone, gone for good.
Sunset - the ever changing colours of the sky over Lanjaron
As you know living here in the Alpujarras, the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains, we are often treated to spectacular sunsets over Lanjaron
We had a recent trip to Penon de la Mata in the Sierra de Huetor north of Granada. From here you get spectacular views of the Sierra Nevada.
A selection of macro shots I took during February 2015
I love getting up close and seeing a completely different world. Today's post is of a wasp!
The Kamchatka Expedition Part 6 - Last few days in Russia
Autumn is arriving here in Spain and another expedition is fast approaching so I thought it's about time I finished this Kamchatka blog before the Patagonia expedition arrives.
The Kamchatka Expedition Part 5 - The escape and a very long bus ride
It's now summer in Andalucia and the heat of August has made me decide it's time to venture back to the freezer known as Kamchatka to cool myself down and try and get this story finished.
The Kamchatka Expedition Part 4 - Deteriorating weather
Here we are onto part 4 of the expedition to ski in Kamchatka
The Kamchatka Expedition Part 3 - Waiting for a weather window at base camp
A lot of what is written in these Kamchatka Expedition trip reports has been taken from the notes and diary I kept.
The Kamchatka Expedition part 2 - Leaving Klyuchi and emergency camp
This report from our Kamchatka expedition is mostly photos as I think they can tell the story much better than myself.
The Kamchatka Expedition Part 1 - Getting there
As most of you are aware a year ago we left to go on an expedition to Kamchatka to attempt to ski and snowboard the highest active volcano in Eurasia
The red palm weevil (Rhynchophorus ferrugineus)
Many times I've stood next to the palm tree in the garden and thought the tree sounded alive. Little did I know it was actually being eaten alive.
Vegetable garden is up and running
Well the veggie garden is up and running again. We don't have a huge selection of veggies growing, we have to keep it on a small scale because we don't have the time needed to look after them, but what we do grow is pretty good at looking after it'self most the time.
The day I met an Ocellated Lizard
A strange meeting with the incredible occelated lizard in the Alpujarras
The next adventure - A land far, far away with fire breathing mountains
Kamchatka is somewhere I heard about many, many, many years ago, saw some photos and thought wow I'd love to go there. Little did I know that one day I would get the opportunity.
On the trail of the Quebrantahuesos!
The Quebrantahuesos (bone breaker), Gypaetus barbatus, Bearded Vulture, Lammergeier, Lammergeyer or what ever you want to call it, is one of the rarest birds in Europe.