It was a quiet evening walk along the coastline ...
... through small dusty roads ...
... with the great view ...
... on distant sail boats ...
... passing seabirds ...
... and the sea in general.
There is always something new to see on that fluid, shifting canvas.
Lovely abstractions are dancing ...
... changing ...
... and disappearing ...
... like elusive, wandering thoughts ...
... caught in the hazy fishbowl filled with dreams.
It's a walk inside the walk, a short psychedelic adventure ...
... before returning to the wider picture.
The lighthouse was built in the year 1865, on the cape called Punta Grkova, which means the Greek's Cape in local dialect, the name is a reminder on the 16th century arrival of a few ships with Greek families from Cyprus that settled in this area.
The automated light on the modern white structure is always signaling ...
... but the old buildings are long abandoned.
The lighthouse is surrounded by the typical coastal vegetation ...
... long grass ...
... blackberry shrubs ...
... and a thorny & aromatic mix of various Mediterranean plants.
A nice variety of wild, self seeding plants supports a varied and interesting insect community.
This is the mammoth wasp (Megascolia maculata ) ...
... a very common encounter in the summer ...
... especially in the evening, when the wasp is ready to sleep, sheltered by the thorns of the Scolymus hispanicus plant.
The usually fast, and hard to catch butterflies ...
... are also quiet now ...
... quiet and easy to photograph.
I found a shiny jewel while walking around the lighthouse ...
... a metallic green beetle.
This is the Lytta vesicatoria, a blister beetle species.
This wasn't the only emerald jewel I encountered on that walk ...
... the European rose chafer (Cetonia aurata) landed on my hand.
Many grasshoppers were jumping around my feet ... and I photographed a few of them ... this Anacridium aegyptium nymph ...
... and this other wingless nymph of some species currently unknown to me.
Just like the butterflies you saw before, flies were also quiet and ready for the nighttime rest. This is some small species from the Bombyliidae family.
I can't tell you much about the species on this photograph ... beside the fact that is very common here on the meadows.
While for these insects the day was done ...
... the cricket were still active.
This is the Oecanthus pellucens, commonly known as Italian tree cricket.
This is the silhouette of the Tylopsis lilifolia, a Bush - cricket species ... and its old skin ...
... this cricket just got out of its old exoskeleton as the sun is going down.
While I was walking through relatively tall vegetation ...
... that was reaching approximately my height ...
... surrounded by many Neoscona adianta spiders ...
... that were hanging in between the plants ...
... this small insects that looks a lot like some kind of Earwig, somehow landed on my hand.
Back near the sea I saw a small boat headed towards the horizon ...
... and the last outbursts of sunlight on lovely flowers of the wild mint that grows in between the rocks ...
... underneath the lighthouse.
And now ...
... with some more thorny vegetation ...
... and a last look at the coastal landscape ... is time to end this walk.
As always in these posts on HIVE, all the photographs are my work.
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