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To Ribeira Frio
A long walk from the list, from some point where the...
Slightly up - from one levada to the other
Mapped on Google Earth showing the locations of the images.
Birdseye view of the walk, it shows where we followed the...
Mist in the distance, over the factory area
Into the woodland. On the left ,hardly visible, used to...
90 degree view - crossing the vallay
Broke tree
Deeper into the forest
Eucalyptus trees, mixed with other
Dead tree
Trunk
Gully into the valley
along the used-to-be lavada
Ferns and their roots in teh moss on a fallen tree
The rhizome of the fern embedded in moss
Abandoned controlcenter
River down the slope
Path towards the bridge - I was way behind Rita. The...
Ribeira de Serra Agua - upstream...
... the bridge..
...Downstream
Another view upstream...
...and downstram
Below the bridge
Hole - the river follows a tunnel
The river in the distance
River geting down
Small river
The wall over the lavada
Cracks in the rockface
View over the open lands
Water on the maintenance road
Ford - river crossing both (coverd) levada and path, then...
A wider path - used for maintenace traffic
open roots - landslade in to the levada
Weathered rocks
Stones fallen into the levada remains
Ferns and heather trees
Slide into the levada, it blocks the stream so it conains...
Mossed trees
Water down the foest -
Dead tree
Eroded wall
The laveda is overgrown and filled - until here, the...
End of the abandoned levada - what is still i use...
...where it rushed down
Though not maintained, the levada carries watsr at this...
Landslide tyhat has been cleaned from the lavada
Waterhouse: Location where the levada delivers water to...
Ttrees on the other side, over the former swicth plain.
built-in road signs. - to Ribeiro Frio
The trees and plain from the other side
locator of diversions...
.. Backside
Automatic Cleaning machine
The restaured levada
Forest over the levada
Fallen tree - a few years old
Moss and plans on the rocks
Mossed wall
90 degree angle
Fallen trees at a point that the sides are steep
Narrow path
passage
Complete blockage since the last storm, not yet cleared
Young trees
Side valley, water coming from there to pass the levada
Bridged levada...
.. in larger context
Big tree
River deeper in the valley
Eroded maintenance road
Narrow passage in a turn - where the maintenance road...
Anticipated passage ahead
Rocks in the riverbed
A second waterhouse
Young finch
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The stop. Here , the watr of the levada...
streams out of the levada...
...down the slopes - to the river
Clouds in the valley
Another fallen tree...
that almost blocks the levada - but water could pass here
Foggy patch
Cut through the rocks
Tree-heather over the path
Short tunnel - the first of several
Steep slopes - many meters straight down
In the clouds
into the low tunnel...
..with a bend
Just below the clouds: View of the Atlantic Ocean
The valley we looked into
Steep slopes, poath outside the rock, the levada in a...
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Rocks over the levada
Side valley - carrying waterover the levada...
...into the valley
Tunnel in the mist
Open valley
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Misty mountain
Another tunnel
Leaving the hole
Aside the stream
Silhouette of the island
Curved tunnel
Roofed path
In the clouds, if you zoom in...
... but zommed out, it is just the distance
Basalt face
levada through the rocks - covered to let people pass as...
Midst of the gorge
Near the end
Final steps
looking back to the gorge
Another almost 180 degree turn
Contnued along the Levada
Landslide, leaving a narow path
That's where the rubbish went
River runnding down
many shades of green
Clouds are disappearing
Bearded branch
Face of the bend
Layers in the rockface
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Whenever there is a crack,plants find a hold...
...except there is too much water coming down
Dripping from the plants, flowing over the rocks
Waterfall onto - and over - the levada
Pools in the stream
Split passage: Lavada left though the rocks,path right...
Adding to the levada
End of the valley - into another, in the sun
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looks like growing from the rock
Mosses
plants in a crack
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Long straps of lichen
Shallow slope
Opering to the coastal range
Woodland
Pool down the path
path is lost in the woodland
Turn over the abyss
Another feeding waterfall
Crossing with a woden topping over the levada
Another open tunnel, to pass over,or aside the levada...
... in part very narrow, hardly place to stand...
...or pasage ocer bare rocks
But it can be easier as well
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Falls - water and tree
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Crossing down the lavada - needed big steps
getting up at the other side, along a crafted passage:...
Ferns clinging to the rocks
River aside the path
Passage DOWN the levada, there is no path over thos wall
This area is rich of waterfalls that add to the levada -...
View fromthe passage
Leading down
The V of the valley
Yet another narrow passage between the levada and rocks
Turn in the levada - with a filter to block debris
Waterfall in a niche
Full light on the ferns
The full sight of the fall and the route down - to teh...
Several kinds of fern...
Clouds are almost gone when ;looking one side...
... but inland, not yet
Walking over the treetops
...and mosses - leading water down
Wet wall - this whole wall is covered with small...
...that goes down the abyss
Stream over the rocks
Not freee-falling but streaming over the plants
White rocks - not limesone, but of volcanic origin
A very tight turn of the levada - tunneled - and the pah...
Water container - or remains of one
The stream aside the levada
Waterfall that marks the beginning of the levada, behind...
A bit firther, a view of the waterfall from the other side
Layer of volcanic material above the road
Old road up the mountain - whre we waited for our taxi
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