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Madeira - 2009 Apr 20 - May 4

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Serra de Água
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Wild gorse is common in the mountains. See Ulex Europaeus
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page on EEM website
Encumeada
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Levada do Norte
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The cafe at Encumeada
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Roger
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Pedras
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looking east
Paúl da Serra
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Roger with wind turbines behind
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After the vertiginous climb up the mountains, the flat bleakness of Paúl de Serra is strangely disconcerting. Even the car looks suprised.
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wind turbines looking east. See how the tops of the peaks peep over the edge of the plateau. The highest peak in the distance is the Pico Ruivo, 1862 metres and this plateau levels off at 1500 metres
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Compare this picture with our one of the Paúl de Serra seen from Pico Arieiro.
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Strange cacti - botanists please identify
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More wind turbines
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The straight road on Paúl de Serra is probably the only road which is straight for over a mile on the island
Rabaçal
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looking down from car park
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Water management system? and cattle
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cow resting with gorse
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Looking towards Calheta? Is the smoke the sugar factory?
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Woodland plant in the shade on the levada walk
Levada do Risco
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The levada walk
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Waterfall
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Roger
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Roger in silhouette
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Ferns under the waterfalls
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The levada path at Rabacal is wide and shaded by ancient laurel
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same as link but with cloud

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