Monday 12 January 2009

Fragas again

We took Shirley and Derek to the dam higher up the Fragas de Eume than we usually go and it was rather spectacular although a bit worrying having to keep a close eye on the boys as there are a lot of up and down bits. The scale is hard to comprehend really even being there we were struggling to guestimate how deep the canyon was. We had a quick look round the dam then drove up the road a few mins and set off along a track to a waterfall we had spotted on Google Earth that the boys thought looked a good place to play Merlin games. Stay away from the edge Rowan....stay away from the edge Rowan ....Rowan stay away from the edge.....we think about an 800 foot drop below the track.
The sun came out and it was like a summers day despite there being a very frosty start earlier in the day. The waterfall was lovely and would be a great place to refresh on a hot hot day.

There are some lovely views of the lake we hope to do some kayaking there when summer aproaches.
Later we headed off to our mushroom picking spot to see if we could find some snow and Derek ended up in several snowball skirmishes.

We also managed a quick snowman.

We ended up staying out longer than expected and the boys got a tad cold and dozed off in the van on the way home.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hi Rowan!!! Looks like you had fun climbing that big ol' mountain! Your walking so far ahead of everone else! Looks like fun!
MIss ya both gorgeous boys! Hugs xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx