Crete 19: Flora and Fauna

 

 

 

 

Crete has some of the oldest olive trees in the world, over a millenium old.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cats of Thalori Ecovillage.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sir Arthur Evans, excavator of Knossos, brought peacocks there a century ago.  I have no idea if these current residents are their descendants.

 

 

Top picutre shows the cock showing off for the hen.  Second picture demonstrates that she's just not that into him.

Griffin vulture, one of the largest birds in Europe.

Hooded crows.  I love corvids.

Near our hotel in Charnia.

In Zakros it was turtles all the way down.

Last stop: Portals