There have been a lot of lovely sunrises recently.
We lost contact with the world for a few days, first the internet then the phone as well, then only the internet, and eventually both came back on together on Sunday. A technical problem Telefonica said..here is what a technical problem looks like....
Yes its some of the trees that blew down in Jan 2009 still on the cables but moved a bit...and below a bout 1 km down the road the arboristas have been chopping around this stretch of the same cables. Pretty amazing that the electric didn't go off....
Here it is partly solved a bit further down the line
We arrived at Club Nautico on the embalse about 7 km East of Valdovino around 6pm in the evening; @ 13 C it was just warm enough to be comfortable so we blew up the Kayak and paddled out on windless glassy water, the level is really really low despite there being a lot of rain, something to do with the algae problem they had last summer I think maybe but we don't know it is just loads lower than we have ever seen it and has been like this for the last few months. A few grebes danced while a couple of Herons and an Ibis kept very still on top of white bleached fragments of trees. Fish jumped and made little rings and long thin streaks of silver, rain tip tapped the water every now and then but didn't wet us. We visited the little island where the biggest of a few lonely tree was blown down in the big wind last year. It is starting to regrow and the old roots are full of wagtails and something else that flew in small flocks and was too fast to see but there were lots of them and they liked the water...and some Snipe zigzagged peep peep peep through the dusk too I think.
It was so nice one of us landed on the island and we pretended to be Hiawatha and other people way hey hey heyoweyo weyhey heyoweyaheyoooo an all that I forgot to take my flute and we both forgot to take photos..hey o weyo weyo
The trees are motionless. a few low clouds are scudding across from the East and the higher clouds are heading North maybe we are in a little wedge under the front and all hell will break loose in a few hours...maybe it stayed out to sea...time will tell.
We lost contact with the world for a few days, first the internet then the phone as well, then only the internet, and eventually both came back on together on Sunday. A technical problem Telefonica said..here is what a technical problem looks like....
Yes its some of the trees that blew down in Jan 2009 still on the cables but moved a bit...and below a bout 1 km down the road the arboristas have been chopping around this stretch of the same cables. Pretty amazing that the electric didn't go off....
Here it is partly solved a bit further down the line
We arrived at Club Nautico on the embalse about 7 km East of Valdovino around 6pm in the evening; @ 13 C it was just warm enough to be comfortable so we blew up the Kayak and paddled out on windless glassy water, the level is really really low despite there being a lot of rain, something to do with the algae problem they had last summer I think maybe but we don't know it is just loads lower than we have ever seen it and has been like this for the last few months. A few grebes danced while a couple of Herons and an Ibis kept very still on top of white bleached fragments of trees. Fish jumped and made little rings and long thin streaks of silver, rain tip tapped the water every now and then but didn't wet us. We visited the little island where the biggest of a few lonely tree was blown down in the big wind last year. It is starting to regrow and the old roots are full of wagtails and something else that flew in small flocks and was too fast to see but there were lots of them and they liked the water...and some Snipe zigzagged peep peep peep through the dusk too I think.
It was so nice one of us landed on the island and we pretended to be Hiawatha and other people way hey hey heyoweyo weyhey heyoweyaheyoooo an all that I forgot to take my flute and we both forgot to take photos..hey o weyo weyo
