Late May last year. I had seen some red flowering Manuka a few times from Ourense. Then a very large cabbage tree leaving Vilasario. But the grove of pohutas at Sardineiro blew me away. There was one just before you walk on the beach before...
Hard not to get emotional Bill when you see them in Finisterre. Seems appropriate when you relate the significance of Finisterre with Spirits Bay in Northland.
Oddly this came up on my feed today. Odd indeed as we are celebrating the rise of Pohutukawa (the star) and her sisters at our winter solstice /new year. Pohutukawa is associate with death, both the tree (at our northen most cape) and the star...
Thank you so much for posting this, @VNwalking - this is so fascinating. I had never heard about pohutukawa growing there before I went to A Coruña. I was going to upload a photo here that I took on 26th May 2019 (if that helps the flowering...
Me too.
It's not in a park or anyplace a peregrino might go, unless on an aimless meander. Fortunately A Coruña is less than an hour from Santiago by train, so it's a nice place to visit after finishing a camino. There's other stuff to see as...
Thank you for this. I went over to Google Street View to check it out and it also looks great from the ground but unfortunately it wasn't in flower when the the Street View car went past. It must be even more magnificent when it is in flower...
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