Dogs Humid dog walk We had a delayed dog walk this morning due to a storm, which sadly never arrived. Rita was convinced it was going to come and she refused to go on the walk.
Trekking Upper Lanjaron Valley overnight We walked up the Lanjaron Valley to the far end and came back via the spectacular Verea Corta. It was a surprisingly hot couple of days. We had some great close up encounters with wildlife including Golden Eagle, Griffon Vultures, Ibex and lots of butterflies.
Weather Day 5 of the heatwave This afternoon we have smashed yesterday's all time high record, which now stands at 43.8C (110.8F). Please don't let tomorrow, day 6 of the heatwave, be like today
Weather Day 4 of the heatwave So it seems yesterday was the warm up for today. We've just broken our all time high we've ever recorded at the house 🥵 It was 41.6C that was recorded in July 2017.
Weather Day 3 of the heatwave Day three of the heatwave. I'm late with today's picture because we took the dogs for a swim, so the picture was taken at 11.50am 32.7C In keeping with the 11am theme the temperature at 11am was 34.2C (93.5F) Our area is on orange alert today
Weather Day 1 of the heatwave Day one of the heatwave. I thought, out of curiosity, I'd try to take a picture around the same time each day.
Flora Mission accomplished Mission today was to locate the 5th Gentian that can be seen in the Sierra Nevada (there are 6 apparently).
Trekking Vasar de Mulhacen The clouds enveloped us on and off. A big boom of thunder decided where we would spend the night.
Nature Ladder Snake and Calima Bumped into this beautiful Ladder snake having a snooze, warming up, or whatever he was doing, on the dog walk yesterday morning.
Walking Cerro de los Machos We took the national park bus up into the Sierra Nevada. Then we dropped down into the impressive Corral de Veleta and started our ascent up Cerro de los Machos.
Trekking A round of the northern peaks This time we did an overnight camp to enable us to do this round trip. It was a short walk on the first day to our overnight camp spot at Lavaderos de la Reina.
Dogs Doggie bath time The annual bathing of the dogs happened today, Rita is super white again 😎 Arko is dirtier than before
Walking A walk up Cerro de Caballo Another grand day out in the mountains this time we went up Cerro de Caballo (3009m).
