Dirk doesn't like windmills

 



It is going to be a day of wiggling round one of the less inhabited parts.  Imagine goat herds, lonely goat herds, possibly singing.  Well, the road has been improved and we will pass the occasional, odd casa or tiny hamlets.   We will pass the Mirador de Las Eras, which has been made from a slice of road which was left when the bend was cut.  It has 40 view reviews. Dirk doesn’t like windmills.  ‘If it weren't for the numerous wind turbines it would be a very nice viewing point. They spoil the whole view’  Well boo to Dirk because Ronny does ‘Very quiet location and a beautiful view.’




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2022

Down the rabbit hole - or should it be the madriguera de conejo.  As of 2020 17.5% of Canarian energy was renewable.  The plan is to have it 60% in 2030 and all of it in 2050. Apparently progress at this point is not as  fast as hoped.

We will have a Candlemas Bun as we head along - at a road called Las Casitas.  Apart from that it all bends, scrub and views.




Time for a rabbit hole.   I went looking for rabbits and the first article said they were dying. https://tenerifeweekly.com/2023/10/03/a-study-reveals-the-cause-of-the-sudden-death-of-rabbits-on-teide/  Rabbits are the tourists of the animal world.  Useful but considered invasive by many locals. They arrived 500 years ago. I was intrigued by the article ‘Introducing rabbits as seed-dispersing frugivores’ but didn’t read it. I leave it here.   https://digital.csic.es/bitstream/10261/337174/1/Introduced-Guerrero_et_al-2023-Biological_Invasions.pdf  Well, I dipped in and can tell you rabbits have been introduced to 800 islands worldwide.  



I will end with the news that rabbits varying in weight from 800g for the young to 1100g for the adults and they tend to be bigger in the north.



With that we will pause and look at the view.


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