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Today I won’t share my adventures of traveling to the States yet, as I’m still going through my 3000+ photographs I took 😇 and have to edit and sort them a bit more first. 😉🤓
So I thought let’s show you something special that can be found in the PARQUE NATURAL - Cabo de Gata-Nijar Spain.
With this post I’m joining in at the Wednesday Walk challenge and Make me Smile challenge. That are hosted by @tattoodjay and @elizacheng every week on Wednesday.
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Today’s selection will be of 20 photographs, where I take you along on a visit to the PARQUE NATURAL - Cabo de Gata-Nijar Spain.
I visited this area 25 September 2017 traveling around Spain 🇪🇸 😊
The Photographs in this post are taken with my (not existing anymore) Canon eos 550D with 18 - 135 mm lens.
I will follow the time stamps on my photographs. So it looks like you are walking along with me 💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻 discovering this old olive tree and see the surroundings through my eyes. 😊
Let me show you first its location on Google maps, see the yellow star ⭐️ :
Zooming in a bit.
Do keep in mind, the location on Google maps isn’t correct. It is about half an hour walk to get down in this valley and all the way around to find the tree. When you are on the road above it, you can not see the tree. Go down and walk all the way until you can not walk further, only there you will find the olive tree. Even if it looks you are wrong, keep going. 😉
Let’s start our walk for today:
I see around me interesting details, like this little plant. Standing tall in it’s barren landscape.
It turned out to be truly photogenic 😎😉
Suddenly I see this bird on the ground. I managed to capture it quickly before it flew away.
Yes, I know it is far away… and I zoomed in all the way here.
Another capture:
I can’t tell you the species, but it looked very elegant and if you look closely you see it had captured a moth like creature.
After wandering for a long while… we finally find, hidden in a corner… all tucked away the tree we were searching.
Taddaaaa I present to you the oldest olive tree in the Mediterranean. 😎🤩 (so they say… on the sign😉)
It doesn’t look big in my photographs but believe me. This tree is truly biggggg 🌳🌳🌳🌳
It is fenced in and has a sign next to it. So you know for sure that you found the right one.
I translated via Google translate the text for you.
It states:
”The hollowness of this small, north-facing meander gives this privileged location the freshness and humidity necessary to protect this olive tree from the environmental adversities. It is this spread with traditional agricultural uses from time immemorial, constituting this dry riverbed the home from one of the oldest olive trees in the Mediterranean.
It has nine meters of base, six and a half of trunk and a height greater than eight meters. The cross of four robust branches is three meters high and form a crown of more than ten meters in diameter. This size elevated makes us suspect that the origin could be up olive tree grafted on a wild olive bush.
The origin of the olive trees is the region Mesopotamia, present-day Iran and Syria, about five thousand years. From there began its expansion towards Europa through the Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans and Arabs, who spread their cultivation. The word "oil" comes from Arabic "az-záyt" meaning "olive juice."
The first "Inventory of Monumental Olive Trees of Spain"; includes five olive trees, unique in the province of Almeria, two of them in the Natural Park of Cabo de Gata-Nijar, specifically in this dry river bed/ valley of Los Viruegas.
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Let me show you some details of the tree:
This is 6,5 meters around it. 😳
Do you see the little flower pot in the tree top right?
Amazing 🤩 isn’t it?
So old… it must have seen so many things… 🥰
The stories it could tell us. 😉
Look at it’s intricate details of the bark…
Another angle of the entire tree… the height is more than 8 meters. The light was very bright that day as you can see.
It was beautiful to see this old olive tree 🌳
Let me show you what protects the tree… the surroundings around it.
The rock face… with it’s intricate details.
Weathered by nature…
Caves that are sure home to other wildlife like bats 🦇
A safe haven for many bird species I can imagine.
As this area is on an migratory route for birds…
See the shelter they have? 😊😁
We saw this all around us and around the tree…
That’s what protected it all those years… 🌳🌳🌳☀️
Beautiful to see.
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Any questions or comments, let me know. Always happy to help.And that’s all for today’s post my friends, join me next time for more #adventures, #stories and #photographs 😎👋🏻 Even some #artworks once in a while will come by 🎨
Have a great Wednesday all 😎
Grtz Jackie
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Happy #wednesdaywalk. What an interesting old tree 🙂 Gives you an interesting perspective on our place on this planet.
It sure does… standing next to something like this makes you humble. And realise what are you actually in this world. 🤓😉
Have a lovely day further!Happy #wednesdaywalk @steven-patrick 👋🏻😁
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Thanks you for sharing this :)
You are welcome @novillain 😁 have a great rest of the week… almost weekend!
Amazing photos. That's one old tree!
Have a wonderful day further!Thanks a lot @ironshield 😊 it sure is. Loved finding it… as it took a while to do so hehehe 🤭
I love walks close to nature, the place you have visited is really beautiful and the tree you have found is incredible, it is good that it has been standing for so many years
I take this opportunity to wish you a wonderful dayHello dear friend @littlebee4 good day
Me too, love nature and all that can be found there.
The tree was incredible and my photos do not do it justice. It was so bigggg. Just beautiful to see.
Thank you kindly, I wish you too a wonderful day today!Hello my friend @jlufer good day to you too. 👋🏻😁
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That's an extraordinary place. I hope you enjoyed your visit there.
Will post more about it one day. Especially the coast is so rough and beautiful.
Have a wonderful day further, thanks for joining me on my walk 👋🏻🥰
!PIZZAThanks a lot @rem-steem 😊 yes I did. As it is such a different place to be around that area.
A very beautiful nature chosen for walking. Who knows what good hearts rested on the bark of this timeless olive tree. The view of the caves is magnificent. Congratulations, it's a nice post.
Yes, imagining that… who would have seen the tree or even rested against it. Magical…
Have a great day today, enjoy it.Thank you so much @passenger777 😊 for your wonderful words.
Very beautiful tree... in a thousand years, it must have seen all the madness of Humanity.
It was indeed beautiful to see. It sure has seen all the madness of humanity.
Have a wonderful Wednesday! Thanks for joining me on my walk @heroldius 😁 and checking out this tree 🌳
Looks like a very cool trip. I think that the oldest olive tree is one in the Lebanon.
That can well be. I already visited other places and olive trees that are older than this one… so I know there are many out there that survived time 😎🌳( that is why I said, the sign says😉)
Have a wonderful day further 👋🏻☀️ Thanks for joining me on this walk!Thank you so much @aschatria 😁 it sure was.
Wow - what a nice park, such lovely features in the rocks !!
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The rocks, yes… one could see lots of things in them.
Have a great day further 👋🏻😁Thank you @hoosie it was great to walk there and trying to find the olive tree.
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Olive trees are so amazing and practically immortals! It is mind-blowing to think of all the things they have witnessed over the centuries!
Of course as Cretan I am obliged to say that the oldest tree is in Crete :)
https://www.miaelia.com/the-oldest-olive-tree-in-the-world/
I love seeing old olive trees… how their trunk moved and grew all the little details.
It is for sure mind blowing to think what they have witnessed 🤓🤩
Have a wonderful day further 👋🏻☀️🌳Of course you should 😉 great to know @fotostef that’s a longgg time for that tree. They even think it is older than the dating. Wow. Thanks for sharing that with me.
How how absolutely beautiful is that tree?? I love those photos, I miss my Canon 5d. Was such an amazing camera and being able to take photos like this.
I so understand what you mean.
My eos 550d died in 2019 on my last trip to Cuba just before the pandemic. I had not replaced it… (as we couldn’t travel for a long while) so the last years I only had my phone to take photos. Some times… it made me go 😬😣 at all the photos that I missed by not having my camera anymore.
But guess what… I bought a new one 2 weeks ago. Definitely an upgrade from my last one that was 10 years old.
Now I have to figure out all new settings and things I didn’t have before. I had it during my trip to the States, the one I just returned from. Going through the captures this week and edit them a bit. Will share them soon 😌😎
Hope you can have a great camera one day again 🤞🏻
Have a wonderful evening! 👋🏻😁Thank you so much @thefoxygeeksa 😁🥰 the tree was (still is) stunning.
Oh the post edit stage, I love that, the tweaking and the playing with things, can't wait to see what you do :)
Yep… my favourite stage. Seeing what did I capture, and how did it turn out.
Thanks a lot. Will post soon about the trip 😊 thanks!
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This place is so historical as the oldest Olive tree in the Mediterranean could be found here. Aside from having a well-written content, you are having great shots too, and it is very visible on the images that the tress has passed so many generations, yet it is alive until today. What a very special place you had explored today. Enjoy your travels and take care always my friend.
I like this place, as when you drive along the road you can not see what lies beneath in the valley. You can’t see the tree. So when I did find it I was truly happy.
Thank you so much, will do! You do the same.
Have a lovely day further 👋🏻😊🤗 I’m glad I could share this walk and the tree with you @pinkchic 😁
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I could feel the delight in your heart my dear friend, @littlebee4. The pleasure is mine and you are most welcome. I felt I am walking with you through the amazing shots you have there. Have a nice time!
Thank you kindly!
You too… 💃🏻💃🏻That’s wonderful to hear @pinkchic 😁
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All that and you didn't get an olive?
Hahaha 🤣 yep, I didn’t get an olive 🫒 😁😎
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Another lovely post.... But the best thing here (at least for me) and that I loved being able to observe in such detail, is that beautiful olive tree!.... Excellent report!... Simply beautiful and perfect... I have always loved old trees.... That one is a marvellous one!... Thanks as always for sharing!...
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I’m happy you love them too and see the beauty in this old olive tree. Happy I could share exactly that with you 😊Thank you so much my friend @jlinaresp 😊🌳 that is what I love too… all the intricate details of such marvellous old trees… the things you see and can tell you, just by observing it’s trunk… scars etc.
Thank you so much.
Enjoy your evening further. 👋🏻
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I've visited a ton of natural parks in Spain, but this one is missing! These photos will probably make me include it on the travel list. 😉
Hope you will make it one day.
Have a lovely weekend! 👋🏻That’s great to hear @pardinus 😁 it’s truly in the middle of nothing. A dry river bed/ valley… open to the elements, except the last part where the tree is standing.
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