It was a misty day as we started off on the 18 km hike I had invented after an evening's pleasant route planning the week before. This was a huge photographic blessing, as the webs which carpeted the undergrowth everywhere were festooned with water droplets, lending everything an exciting silvery sheen and allowing for some great close ups. As we headed further up more and more of the low bushes were blueberries, and the higher we went the more heavily laden their stubby branches. We stopped frequently to rake the berries off the plants in handfuls, turning our tongues blue and our hands a garish purple from all the juice. Now and again we supplemented our blueberry diet with some raspberries which were also found hanging around in the less wooded spots.
Later into the hike the sun burned though the clouds and it ended up being a wonderful day, although the views down the valley were almost completely obscured in haze. The order of the day really was colour, to the intenese purple of blueberry juice and the mild pinkish-red of the raspberries should be added the deep green of the blueberry leaves, the fiery orange of the stags-horn-like fungi and the spotted red and white of quite a few fly agaric.
I wasn't really in shape after a month of sitting around, but a great hike nonetheless. Sometimes things just seem to work out and a whole bunch of cool photos appear by chance all at once. Check them out here!
Bis bald,
Der Tom
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