Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Nature & Tenerife

Nature in Tenerife is completely different from the well known environment of an Austrian citizen. The huge number of endemic plants, the volcanism of the Island and the mammals living in the deep blue sea between Tenerife and Gomera are really impressing. I was on the way to find bottlenose dolphins and pilot whales with a small catamaran and had a good guide – less than an hour and we could watch some dolphins and – in distance – we could recognize some whales breathing at the surface of the sea.

Very impressing was the way into the barranco de inferno – strange flowers and some “perdiz” were found along the way deep into the canyon. The partridge (= perdiz) is not the same we know from our meadows and veldt round Wiener Neustadt (there we have the brown “perdix perdix") – it’s colored and looks very beautiful …



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