ready to hit the trail down what a beautiful day for a walk in the mountains but first, check out the view, what a great spot to sit and enjoy where we are heading ( as seen with a 400mm lens, as in , it's further to walk than that what you see here ) pretty horses something tells me we won't make it there today start of the nature walk/trail let's go looking back over my shoulder , pretty onwards lots of meadows dotted with a barn here and there little flowers oh, and again, bees seen so many beehives on this europe road trip part of that house Jacqui loves cows, when they are on the other side of a fence, but no fence here you just walk right past them some of them are a bit inquisitive bloody flies hello just shook his head to get rid of some of the flies and have a sniff of what that is that I am shoving in his face :-) a lot of them love a scratch wide angle, looks more like a dog now :-) the younger ones kept following me slowly as I started to leave they wanted more photos hopefully will see you guys again for another scratch pretty country meadows some sections of the nature trail are a bit wet, so it is a diversity of different landscapes, think meadows, pine forest and these more wetter lands, so the soil has a different ph level and therefore different faunaone we go cotton flowers signs of water again everywhere what we walked sofar more cows more huts more cows :-) looking back again, we've come a long way now imagine this in winter what a view and then above you the snow fields looking across the valley with the 400mm look at that, it just looks like a rolled out green carpet from here, love it looking at Eggalm, where I skied in January Barbara Kapelle, one of the few remaining structures up on the mountain here, was a little village her, with the Chapel and a school, all part of a quarry that was up here since the early 1900's mining Magnesite, it was discovered there was a big deposit of it here and was sought after in the years from 1920 through to 1970's for it;s strong resistance to high temperatures one of the few remains of the village the water spring and a water wheel under the chapel on we go, and again, streams everywhere still a way to go more bees on the final way down made it, exhausted, but made it