Mixed bag of views mostly at Pantin with flowers

A view of Valdovino from the top of a hill near Campelo.

and Pantin on a hot Sunday; crowded isn't it
The car park is very handy and free although there is only enough room for two or three if you are all friends and there is no room for the third one to turn round so it has to reverse up the steep rough track as I found out a week after this

Very pale but lovely thrift
Pink snapdragon looking things and blue flowers ones too, high on the cliff
Squill lovely to see and smell it here, it also grows on the cliffs around Sennen in Cornwall.

Theres hardy for you, Thrift thriving on nearly nothing

That blue stuff again no idea what it is but it reminds me of a blue from Morocco

An some of those aren't they pretty are they saffron crocuses.
Down there about 3 meters below in very clear and fairly cold water were huge starfish

At low tide the water is knee deep on the sandbank but plunges suddenly into a channel that is perhaps about 10 meters deep where the rip scours the bottom...a rip is a deadly dangerous current or a chair lift to heaven depending on whether you surf or not.

Later in the week the lake was trying out being a mirror so it was a good time for a night adventure in the kayak
The water looked like this from the kayak for a little while
On the other side is another world full of pirates and and an army of monsters apparently, it got very dark then a bit lighter and we paddled home by the light of a silvery moon but forgot to take photos

We got out on the water a bit earlier the next day and landed on a pirate island inhabited by large ducks and little else
We caught a gentle wind and blew our way slowly back to club nautico, we were heading off to the right of the pic with the kayak partially beam on to the wind and fortunately the water was also sloping the right way as you can see..phew its always easier when going home is a downhill run
Back on shore and we met a terrapin / tortuga and did not get bitten, was it a menace should we have captured it, I don't know, it did looking cute so we left it be.