Tigger the Speleologist and Mountaineer (near Monodendri)

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Tuesday was mountaineering day. Try to imagine the slightly breathless Attenborough commentary to accompany the sightings of the rare striped mountain cat as it disappears over the ridge...

We visited Oxya viewpoint, and edged our way from there around a rock ledge to get still more precipitous views of vastly scarier ways to fall to your death.  I spent most of my time looking up......there were even more cliffs above us with rocks that could drop on you at any time.

Let me list the ways to die...

It was a lovely sunny day so I explored some caves, and a few ledges, and charmed some tourists who were not expecting to catch a glimpse of the rare striped mountain cat...

Then my humans trekked me into something called the Stone Forest.  I did a really good explore there and F has dozens of photos of rocks stacked up like pancakes, and me hunting for lizards in among pancake rocks.  We captured some lizards (by camera), but we are saving up all lizard photos for a wildlife summary post seeing as we haven't encountered any bears.

It is really quiet out here on a day with no wind. Two shiney black crows swooped across the canyon shouting to one another. A small flock of starlings tweeted about the sunshine and the rising  thermals they were surfing. Mr B said he could hear baby eagles complaining about the food delivery service. There are apparently 3 kinds of eagles and two kinds of falcon in the Vikos Gorge area.  We didn't see the source of the complaining, which was probably a good thing or I might have been eagle food if they had seen me!