Hi all,
Had a lovely break in the south of France last week. Absolutely roasting, so took shelter in the forests and hills and ended up snapping quite a lot of plants while pootling about - thought you lot might appreciate them!
This last one was really cool - petrified moss! The water here flows out of limestone and is incredibly hard, carbonates precipitate out and are held by the mosses growing in the water, eventually forming huge overhanging sheets of what I can only describe as mossrock. Eventually it becomes tufa, of which there was lots scattered about.
Had a lovely break in the south of France last week. Absolutely roasting, so took shelter in the forests and hills and ended up snapping quite a lot of plants while pootling about - thought you lot might appreciate them!
This last one was really cool - petrified moss! The water here flows out of limestone and is incredibly hard, carbonates precipitate out and are held by the mosses growing in the water, eventually forming huge overhanging sheets of what I can only describe as mossrock. Eventually it becomes tufa, of which there was lots scattered about.
It can get a bit touristy, but in a nicely managed way with wooden walkways etc. (it helped that it was raining a lot of the day I was there, especially given that it probably looks more beautiful in the rain). A family friend who now lives nearby told me that there are other valleys near to it, where locals go and that have not been made into parks but are every bit as jaw-dropping.